Hi There,

I am hosting a web site for a client and their email is hosting on the local ISP's servers. So they want www.mysite.com to go to my server (I swiched the DNS stuff at NSI to do this) however they want hello@myname.com to be handled by their ISP.

How can I set this up?

Thanks,

-dr

Originally posted by dico
I am hosting a web site for a client and their email is hosting on the local ISP's servers. So they want www.mysite.com to go to my server (I swiched the DNS stuff at NSI to do this) however they want hello@myname.com to be handled by their ISP.
How can I set this up?


Just setup DNS so that the A records point to your server. Then add an A record called "mail" (i.e. mail.domain.com) and let that point to his ISP's mailserver. Last, add an MX record that species mail.domain.com as the mailexchanger.

Hi there,

So when I "add new virtual site", what should I put in as the "Email Server Alias"?


And under the DNS it should look like this:

testing.com -> my.ip.add.ress
mail.testing.com -> isp.ip.add.ress
www.testing.com -> my.ip.add.ress
my.ip.add.ress/24 -> testing.com
testing.com mail is sent to the High priority mail server mail.testing.com


And I should call my local ISP to get "isp.ip.add.ress"

Right? I just don't want to mess up.

Thanks,

-dr

Originally posted by dico
Hi there,

So when I "add new virtual site", what should I put in as the "Email Server Alias"?


And under the DNS it should look like this:

testing.com -> my.ip.add.ress
mail.testing.com -> isp.ip.add.ress
www.testing.com -> my.ip.add.ress
my.ip.add.ress/24 -> testing.com
testing.com mail is sent to the High priority mail server mail.testing.com


And I should call my local ISP to get "isp.ip.add.ress"

Right? I just don't want to mess up.

Thanks,

-dr

You should put nothing in "Email Server Alias".

The DNS looks correct.

I've just been approached to do the same thign, and want to make sure my settings are correct. This is what I have for my DNS setting in our Tera-Byte control panel.

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test.com has an IP of xxx.my.ip.xxx
mail for test.com is delivered to mail.test.com with a preference of 5
mail has an IP of xxx.isp.ip.xxx
www has an IP of xxx.my.ip.xxx
Non-matching DNS requests are not forwarded
------

Is that right? Then do I just need the ISP's mailserver IP? Or do they need to set something else up.

And the domain name should JUST have our nameservers on it?

Originally posted by nEMESIS4
I've just been approached to do the same thign, and want to make sure my settings are correct. This is what I have for my DNS setting in our Tera-Byte control panel.

------
test.com has an IP of xxx.my.ip.xxx
mail for test.com is delivered to mail.test.com with a preference of 5
mail has an IP of xxx.isp.ip.xxx
www has an IP of xxx.my.ip.xxx
Non-matching DNS requests are not forwarded
------

Is that right? Then do I just need the ISP's mailserver IP? Or do they need to set something else up.

And the domain name should JUST have our nameservers on it?

Correct.