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[marouani]

Hello Falk's,

I'm having a trouble under plesk but I couldn't find the same issue, I'm having a domain setup under plesk : flm.fr, the DNS server are setup with my registrar, and at my registrar dns admin desk I've setup the DNS to use a MX different that where my domain name A entry is pointing.

So on my plesk server I only wants to use it for http, email are arriving on another server, it works fine except for example if I use the php mail function to send an email to test@flm.fr, it never arrives, I guess the server thinks that it is his own MX ... I've tried to turn of DNS services in plesk but it is the same, I've tried also to setup the DNS zone for the MX in plesk (even if I don't have any domain pointing to the DNS server of my plesk). I've but :

flm.fr.<domain>. MX (10) ASPMX2.GOOGLEMAIL.COM.
flm.fr.<domain>. MX (5) ALT2.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM.
flm.fr.<domain>. MX (10) ASPMX3.GOOGLEMAIL.COM.
flm.fr.<domain>. MX (10) ASPMX4.GOOGLEMAIL.COM.
flm.fr.<domain>. MX (10) ASPMX5.GOOGLEMAIL.COM.
flm.fr.<domain>. MX (5) ALT1.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM.

But it is the same :-(

How can I do to make it realize that MX is not operated by itself !

Thank you for your help,

regards,

sebM

[designerhosting]

Hi

I am not sure if you have resolved this now because I can see it is a few days old but all you need to do it disable the Mail for the domain within Plesk and it will then use the MX you specified in the DNS record.

[marouani]

Yes ! it works great now ! thank you for your help

Regards