Using MX Records to Forward Email to Another Domain
if you need just catch email on domain and forward to you other mailbox, you can use http://improvmx.com/ just by adding MX records to your domain
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How to get mx records for a dns name with System.Net.DNS? [closed]
Update 2018/5/23: Check out MichaC’s answer for a newer library that has .NET standard support. Original Answer: The ARSoft.Tools.Net library by Alexander Reinert seems to do the job pretty well. It’s available from NuGet: PM> Install-Package ARSoft.Tools.Net Import the namespace: using ARSoft.Tools.Net.Dns; Then making a synchronous lookup is as simple as: var resolver = new … Read more
Benefits of using a subdomain for sending email?
My question is: Is there any added benefit of sending automated email from an email address with a subdomain? I don’t think there are many technical reasons why a subdomain is required or necessarily better for deliverability of emails. That being said, having/using subdomains can sometimes make things easier for large organizations because: As an … Read more
Can an email server be set-up on an Azure VM?
No. You can’t be reasonably sure your outgoing email will be delivered, as many destinations simply blacklist, firewall, or even null route all major cloud providers’ IP blocks due to the heavy abuse seen from those ranges – not just from email but via other services as well. And even if your mail is delivered … Read more
Are SPF needed for domains that do not send mails and do not have MX record?
No spf records are NOT required if your domain doesn’t send emails however for benefit of reducing the risk of spam mail coming from that domain setting the spf record of “v=spf1 -all” is good so that spf checking servers see this and automatically reject email from that domain
Are separate dns records necessary for web and mail on a single server?
Yes, it would be possible, but you will lose some important advantages if you choose to do so: If you point all services to the same DNS name, you can’t put them onto separate servers any more without reconfiguring any client that refers to them. As an example: With different names, when the load on … Read more
Using fake MX records to combat spam
Do yourself a favor and set them up with a gateway anti-spam service such as Postini. For a few dollars per mailbox per month, there’s absolutely no reason not to and you’ll not only eliminate 99% of your spam, you’ll also enjoy having access to their spool service (handy for scheduled or unscheduled downtime), not … Read more
Can you reference a CNAME record in an MX record?
According to RFC 1123, the MX record cannot point to a CNAME. If I were in your situation, I would setup mail.ourdomain.com as an A record pointing to the new suppliers IP address and then quickly work on changing all MX records over to the correct data. Then address why changing MX records is so … Read more
Server 2012R2 DNS server returning SERVFAIL for some AAAA queries
I’ve looked into the network tace some more and done some reading. The reqest for the AAAA record, when non-existant, returns an SOA. Turns out the SOA is for a different domain that that being requested. I suspect that’s why Windows is rejecting the response. Request AAAA for mx.atomwide.com. Response SOA for lgfl.org.uk. I will … Read more
MX Records – go to two servers?
There’s no way you can do this via the MX records within a single domain name–DNS is always going to point emails destined to alice@acme.example and bob@acme.example to the server that answers at the highest-priority MX record. (In other words, the second -highest priority MX record is not used unless there was no response at … Read more