Question about mx records.

Submitted by andrew.harrison on Thu, 10/01/2015 - 13:36

Hello,

I have a server: elf.therestaurantmarketinginstitute.com I also use this server as elf.therestaurantmarketinginstitute.com.

Instead of having users use mail.domain.com, I have them use elf.therestaurantmarketinginstitute.com

My question, in the mx records, can I say the mail is elf.therestaurantmarketinginstitute.com, instead of mail.theirdomain.com?

Example: mail.theirdomain.com.com. IN A x.x.x.x (Where x represents an integer for IP address)

The way I wish to configure:

elf.therestaurantmarketinginstitite.com x.x.x.x theirdomain.com. IN MX 5 elf.therestaurantmarketinginstute.com.

Will this work?

Thanks in advance. Andrew

Status: 
Closed (fixed)

Comments

Submitted by JamieCameron on Thu, 10/01/2015 - 23:23

Sure, you can set default records for a domain at System Settings -> Server Templates -> Default Settings -> BIND DNS Domain. However, for MX records it doesn't really matter much - they aren't visible to users.

Submitted by andrew.harrison on Fri, 10/02/2015 - 02:25

Thanks, greatly appreciated.