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by chaom

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Good Afternoon All,
Currently our company has a public domain name (ex. mycompany.com) hosted by our ISP. There's also an MX record (mycompany.com) created on the ISP DNS. We're running our own smtp mail (user@mycompany.com). Users can send/receive their internal/external mails fine.
I'm planning to set up a new mail system for accounting dept users. i.e. user@accounting.mycompany.com. Do I have to call my ISP to create a new MX record for accounting.mycompany.com so the accounting users can send/receive internet mails. What's my option? Pleas advise.
Thanks a bunch,
Melvin Chao
chaom@earthlink.net

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by voldar

If you ask me about the idea to implement the user_name@department.mycompany.com - it's a bit odd. Why? Because first of all I suppose is not very important to know what department a person works for - but to know in what company is a must. If I want to let know the others what is my specific work I can create an e-mail signature for every departments in my company - and that's a good idea. Then, I have to say that creating a new e-mail adress with the sufix you are thinking of is more complicated then adding a new MX record. You have to create aliases or, why not, new subdomains to ease your work. Read more about setting up an e-mail server and you'll see that is not that easy : just adding an MX record to the ISP provider.

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