>with help from Scott and his .DLL. The question is can I setup a DNS entry
>that would route something like MAIL.BUYREMAN.COM to a server that I do host
>here, like MAIL.APRATECH.ORG, without affecting the "call" to BUYREMAN.COM.
sure, the whole idea of MX records is to enable to have the mail exchanger
host to be different from the main host.
In fact, with no MX records for a domain, a smtp server will try to send
the mail to the A record address of the domain. "Best practice" today is
to have MX records anyway, even when the A record and MX record point to
same ip address.
So in your case, www.domain.com and domain.com traffic will go to the A
record ip address, while mail traffic will go to the MX record's host.
Many of us do this already because run dedicated mail servers separate from
the web servers.
And so you can see why you need security on your DNS server, since if
someone hacks and pollutes your DNS, they can point traffic, esp mail
(clear text) traffic to a machine that shouldn't be getting it.
Seeing how much time Ipswitch put into the DNS issue in the Imail docs,
this topic is very much "on".
Len
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