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by supreme21

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Ok here is situation, the company I work for has an outsourced company handling there email and website. They decided to bring email in house for easier management. So I have to setup the new email system, everything on my side has been worked out. Just one thing they want to keep the same domain name for email. So my question is what do I have to setup in dns since the outsourced company is still handling the company website? Or can they just redirect mail to our smtp server

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by svrarvind

Hi Supreme,

you will need to change the MX record in the DNS to point to the IP address of the new server.

Aravind

by lordinfidel

Aravind is correct.

Have your ISP change the MX record to point to the new mail server.

Make sure though that it(your mail server)is working first. That is able to send and recieve mail. I would coordinate the change with them just in case things go wrong.

Also do the change over on a friday night. So at least you have the weekend for DNS to propagate, thus reducing the risk of daily workday business being interrupted.

You may also want to consider having them keep their mx record as second. Just in case something does go wrong.

by djent

In plain terms have you web host forward you e mail to your mail server IP.

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