backup mail server

[Will Yardley]

phrogg wrote:

> mine uses www.bigmailbox.com as a mail server system (like hotmail, for
> example), and per their instructions, he was to change his MX record to
> point to mailrecv.bigmailbox.com, as such:
> 
> ;mail server
>    MX 10 mail
> mail   CNAME mailrecv.bigmailbox.com.
> 
> ....and it works, as we, with out basic understanding, would expect.  is this
> technically wrong?

big mailbox has you setup an MX to point to mailrecv.bigmailbox.com. --
and a CNAME for the webmail part.  these are totally separate.

so it wouldn't be:
@	MX 10 mail
mail	CNAME mailrecv.bigmailbox.com.

but:
@	MX 10 mailrecv.bigmailbox.com.
mail	CNAME sitemail.bigmailbox.com. 

or something like that.

w

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