Granted the down-side is now you have two mail systems to take care of. For me it was cheaper than paying $50/yr for each cron e-mail account.
-Will On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 3:45 PM, William Attwood <[email protected]> wrote: > That the third MX record is not on the primary domain, but a sub-domain; > this way no mail goes to it without it being [email protected] > I tell Google: > > take all mail coming in for [email protected] and direct it to > [email protected] > > You have your "Control" in Google, which determines mass delivery to other > systems. > > -Will > > On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Daniel C. <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 3:33 PM, William Attwood <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > What will happen is the lower the number, the higher the priority; if >> mail. >> > isn't responding, it will try mail2, if that doesn't respond, it'll try >> > mail3 - if in the end none respond, it will wait a certain amount of >> time >> > and try again; eventually, if none work, it will bounce it back to you >> > undeliverable. >> >> That much I'm familiar with, yeah. >> >> > To get around the possibility of random e-mail delivery, I actually went >> > this route: >> > >> > This is from my bind zone file: >> > IN MX 1 aspmx.l.google.com. >> > IN MX 5 alt1.aspmx.l.google.com. >> > IN MX 5 alt2.aspmx.l.google.com. >> > automail.domain.com. IN MX 1 automail.domain.com. >> > automail.commissionriver.com. IN A XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX >> >> What part of the last MX record prevents it from receiving random mail? >> >> Dan >> >> /* >> PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net >> Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug >> Don't fear the penguin. >> */ >> > > > > -- > Warm regards, > William Attwood > Idea Extraordinaire > [email protected] > Don Marquis <http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/d/don_marquis.html> - > "Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday." > -- Warm regards, William Attwood Idea Extraordinaire [email protected] Bill Cosby <http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/b/bill_cosby.html> - "Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope." /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
