Comments on: What are MX Records? http://ben.hamilton.id.au/general/what-are-mx-records?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=what-are-mx-records what I find interesting in tech and CRM Thu, 07 Apr 2011 05:27:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: admin http://ben.hamilton.id.au/general/what-are-mx-records/comment-page-1#comment-36 admin Sat, 08 Mar 2008 11:44:07 +0000 http://ben.hamilton.id.au/what-is/what-are-mx-records#comment-36 Gerry, if your having trouble, two tools that may be of help are: <a href="http://www.mxtoolbox.com/index.aspx" rel="nofollow">MX Toolbox</a> and <a href="http://www.mob.net/~ted/tools/index.html" rel="nofollow">Ted's Homemade web tools</a>. Gerry, if your having trouble, two tools that may be of help are: MX Toolbox and Ted’s Homemade web tools.

]]> By: Gerry McHugh http://ben.hamilton.id.au/general/what-are-mx-records/comment-page-1#comment-35 Gerry McHugh Sat, 08 Mar 2008 05:37:15 +0000 http://ben.hamilton.id.au/what-is/what-are-mx-records#comment-35 thanks for this,I am havoning ongoing problems with web hosting providers being unable or unwilling to point the mx record to my new fixed IP address thanks for this,I am havoning ongoing problems with web hosting providers being unable or unwilling to point the mx record to my new fixed IP address

]]> By: admin http://ben.hamilton.id.au/general/what-are-mx-records/comment-page-1#comment-17 admin Mon, 28 Jan 2008 05:58:54 +0000 http://ben.hamilton.id.au/what-is/what-are-mx-records#comment-17 Ken, the MX record should point to the clients external IP address (use <a href="http://whatismyip.org/" rel="nofollow">http://whatismyip.org/</a> to find this) - Making sure it is a STATIC IP, not a dynamically assigned IP address. The clients external router should then pass any port 25 requests though to the internal IP address of the mail server. Hope that helps ;-) Ben. Ken, the MX record should point to the clients external IP address (use http://whatismyip.org/ to find this) – Making sure it is a STATIC IP, not a dynamically assigned IP address.

The clients external router should then pass any port 25 requests though to the internal IP address of the mail server.

Hope that helps ;-)
Ben.

]]> By: KEN E. http://ben.hamilton.id.au/general/what-are-mx-records/comment-page-1#comment-16 KEN E. Mon, 28 Jan 2008 05:30:37 +0000 http://ben.hamilton.id.au/what-is/what-are-mx-records#comment-16 Thanx, this is helpful, but which IP should the MX record point to? the mail servers internal address or the clients external router address? Thanx, this is helpful, but which IP should the MX record point to? the mail servers internal address or the clients external router address?

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