Incoming and Outgoing Mail

gpatrick said:
How is Bind setup to handle mail if the pop3/imap and smtp mail servers are split? Which of them gets the MX record?
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Whichever one you specify (mail servers don't "get" MX records, MX records are set to point somewhere - by you), which should be the SMTP one.

Fonz
 
gpatrick said:
How is Bind setup to handle mail if the pop3/imap and smtp mail servers are split? Which of them gets the MX record?
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That's simple. The MX record is used by other mail servers to determine where to send mail for your domain to. So it's the incoming mail server that requires an MX record. The outgoing mail server doesn't require one.
 
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