dns settings for third party email provider

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I think the problem is when I send mail to me at sophoula.com it attempts to
> send to me at klym.dyndns.org - see the host query below: 
> > dig sophoula.com mx 
;; ANSWER SECTION: 
> sophoula.com.           85000   IN      CNAME   klym.dyndns.org.
> klym.dyndns.org.        42345   IN      MX      10 ns4.i-mecca.net.  

You are changing the name of 'sophoula.com' to 'klym.dyndns.org' (cname) 
so naturally it is trying to send it to 'me at klym.dyndns.org'.

What you 'should' have is simply: 
sophoula.com.           42345   IN      MX      10 ns4.i-mecca.net. 

On 7 Sep 2003 at 21:51, Klym wrote:
To:             	comp-protocols-dns-bind at isc.org
From:           	nospam at klym.ca (Klym)
Subject:        	dns settings for third party email provider
Date sent:      	7 Sep 2003 21:51:28 -0700
Organization:   	http://groups.google.com/

> I am learning the basics of DNS and am trying to solve a problem with
> setting up my email.  I have gone through previous posts and the how-to's
> but I'm still stumped ...
> 
> I am hosting my web site, www.sophoula.com, on my linux box and would like
> to use a third party email hosting provider as I am not ready to run my
> own mail server.  I created a MX record with my email host's mail server
> name, ns4.i-mecca.net
> 
> I have a dynamic IP so I am using dynamic dns services from
> www.dyndns.org
> I created a CNAME record for sophoula.com pointing to klym.dyndns.org
> 
> My problem is I am unable to send mail to my email accounts,
> me at sophoula.com for example.  I think the problem is when I send mail to
> me at sophoula.com it attempts to send to me at klym.dyndns.org - see the host
> query below:
> 
> dig sophoula.com mx
> 
> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> sophoula.com.           85000   IN      CNAME   klym.dyndns.org.
> klym.dyndns.org.        42345   IN      MX      10 ns4.i-mecca.net.
> 
> host -t mx sophoula.com
> 
> sophoula.com is an alias for klym.dyndns.org.
> klym.dyndns.org mail is handled by 10 ns4.i-mecca.net.
> ------------------------------------------------------
> 
> What am I missing to get the email working properly?  Any help is
> appreciated.
> 
> thx
> 
>