Hi,

We are the SOA for our domain, we are now going to be using an external smtp
relay server ie our new MX record will be pointing to an external source. I
have added the new MX records but they do not work as in they are not
viewable from a nslookup, however when an internal (host is same as parent
folder) is created, all is ok, please advise how to create an external
pointing MX record in Windows 2003
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Jim Zula

Jim Zula wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We are the SOA for our domain, we are now going to be using an
> external smtp relay server ie our new MX record will be pointing to
> an external source. I have added the new MX records but they do not
> work as in they are not viewable from a nslookup, however when an
> internal (host is same as parent folder) is created, all is ok,
> please advise how to create an external pointing MX record in Windows
> 2003

Create the MX record leaving the Host or child domain field blank, and give
it the external mail server's Fully Qualified name.

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Best regards,
Kevin D. Goodknecht Sr. [MVP]
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