mail redirect

[Barry Margolin]

In article <9pi6dl$oii at pub3.rc.vix.com>, Mikk <no at mail.com> wrote:
>I need to redirect all the mail to an external mail server.
>
>I modified the record file in this way:
>
>MX 10 mail
>mail  IN A (ip of the external mail server)
>
>Is it right? I've to do other?

The MX line should be:

yourdomain.com. MX 10 mail

If you indent the line you wrote and put it immediately after another
record for "yourdomain.com." then it will work, since an indented line
continues the same name.  But as you wrote it, it will not work.

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Barry Margolin, barmar at genuity.net
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