Any MX DNS experts around?

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Want to point the mail server elsewhere, but not 100% sure what changes I have to make to the MX entry.

I have changed the MX entry to the new mail server address, but do I need to change the MAIL - CNAME entry at all? That's still pointing to the original domain, but in all the tutorials I've read it doesn't mention changing that too.

Thanks in advance.
 
So it'd just be ignored if the MX entry changes to another server?

This tutorial directs you to change it, but I think it's that's just if you want to change the mail server to an IP.

This other tutorial says you just change the MX entry itself. First time I've had to do this and a bit lost.

I've just changed the MX entry on its own just now. An MX lookup doesn't find any MX servers associated with the domain which I thought was a bit strange. Would have thought it would either have the old one, or the new one once it's propogated. Not finding any makes me wonder whether it's already updated and finding the 'new one' but it's finding one that's entered wrongly so is saying there's none.
 
Im not claiming to be an expert, but you probably need to wait for propogation, and the mail entry may be the pop3 details but if you know your host you will know your pop3 imap settings
 
unknowndomain said:
Im not claiming to be an expert, but you probably need to wait for propogation, and the mail entry may be the pop3 details but if you know your host you will know your pop3 imap settings
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I am the host :) I think you're right wth the propogation though.
 
ohh okay well im not my host but i do edit dns manually on my host...

subdomain 'mail' is an MX record and points at 'aspmx.l.google.com.' but it also has a CNAME record pointing at 'ghs.google.com.' So I may be both wrong and right, the mail mx entry points at your mail server but the cname one points where your webmail server is.
 
unknowndomain said:
ohh okay well im not my host but i do edit dns manually on my host...

subdomain 'mail' is an MX record and points at 'aspmx.l.google.com.' but it also has a CNAME record pointing at 'ghs.google.com.' So I may be both wrong and right, the mail mx entry points at your mail server but the cname one points where your webmail server is.
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Ah, that's what the CNAME is for then. Cheers. I've changed the MX record to point to the new exchange server, but an nslookup is still saying "No MX records found for xxxxx". Hopefully it's just propagation time. It's strange though. You'd think it would just say the old MX record before it propagates to the new one.
 
Ours is setup with an A record for 'mail' (mail.whatever.com) that points to the server IP and the MX record points to mail. But we have mail.whatever.com with webmail on it.
 
Cheers. Got it sorted. Changing the MX record corrupted the DNS on the server, causing the problems. Cpanel seems to screw up now and then :(
 
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