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Solution: Can I have separate IP for A record & MX record #dev #solution #programming

Can I have separate IP for A record & MX record

I have abc.tv site which is configured on a.a.a.a IP and my mailing solution([email protected]) which I want to configured on y.y.y.y IP address. Is is possible to have separate IPs fo my A record & MX record as below?

Domain name – abc.tv A Record – a.a.a.a MX record – y.y.y.y

please suggest

Answer [by Russell Heilling]: Can I have separate IP for A…

Fixed: MX Backup service #programming #computers #answer

MX Backup service

What suppliers can you recommend, that provide an MX backup service?

Answer [by cas]: MX Backup service

it used to be the case that having a backup MX was a Good Thing. the internet was unreliable, email was unreliable, smtp was not so common, bang-path addressing and other forms of manually-specified mail routing was common, and uucp was the mail protocol of choice.

That was…

Fixed: Using fake MX records to combat spam #development #answer #computers

Using fake MX records to combat spam

I have a client that is getting heavily spammed.. it’s the 15th of the month and POP3 bandwidth is almost 100 GB (yes GB..lol!) there are only 7 e-mail account on this domain. I installed SpamAssassin set it to 5 and setup 10-20 filters reject most of the junk. I don’t see much of a change in POP3 bandwidth. Correct me if I’m wrong, the server still receives…

Answer: Hotmail sending email to A record not MX records #development #fix #dev

Hotmail sending email to A record not MX records

I have my website hosted at one location, on a server that also accepts email, and I use Google Apps for mail as my email provider. I’ve had no problems in the last 18 months, and no reports of email being lost.

This week however, someone using Hotmail has tried emailing me. 25-50% of the emails they send are returned to them, with a “550 relay…

How-to: Can you reference a CNAME record in an MX record? #computers #dev #development

Can you reference a CNAME record in an MX record?

We have several domains all pointing their MX records at mail.ourdomain.com, an internal mail server.

We are looking to outsource our email to a new supplier, who would like us to use mail.newsupplier.com; their mail server.

We’d rather not change all of the domain names to point to that MX record; several aren’t in our control, and it would mean…

Fix: Best Practices for preventing you from looking like a spammer #answer #programming #it

Best Practices for preventing you from looking like a spammer

I’d like to feel more confident setting up mail for my clients with regards to false positives. Here’s what I know:

SPF records are good, but not every spam filter service/software (SFSS) uses them.

reverse DNS (PTR) records are pretty much a necessity.

Open relays are bad.

(Here’s “other tips” I’ve read):

the reverse lookup of the IP…

Resolved: DNS: Is it valid to have an "MX" record and no "A" record? #development #fix #dev

DNS: Is it valid to have an "MX" record and no "A" record?

Say you own a abcd.com and you only want to use it to send and receive email via [email protected]. You don’t want to provide any kind of website.

Can you set up the DNS records to include an “MX” record and no “A” record?

Is this enough for sending and receiving email to work?

Is this valid in terms of whatever standard defines these things?

Answer: DNS using CNAMEs breaks MX records? #answer #it #computers

DNS using CNAMEs breaks MX records?

We are trying to move all our websites we host to CNAMES as we are planning on moving servers in the new year and would like the ability to move some clients to one server and other clients somewhere else. We were planning on giving clients a unique CNAME which we can then change at a later date. (We have other reasons for doing this now but that is the main…