Hans: I know there are man pages and the like, but is there a compendium devoted to helping a simple mind like mine understand email set up and administration, from the ground up? I am happy to dig in and read if I can find the right source on all this.
Scott >-----Original Message----- >From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On >Behalf Of Hans Fugal >Sent: Friday, May 15, 2009 8:44 AM >To: Provo Linux Users Group Mailing List - 100% Unmoderated, >High Traffic >Subject: Re: multiple mail servers for one domain > >Merrill Oveson wrote: >> Possible to do....? >> I have a user say [email protected] >> >> I want her to get her email from foo.com >> >> everyone else is set up to access their email thru gmail. >> >> The MX record points to gmail.google.com >> >> Possible to have more that one MX record which essentially >splits the >> domain? > >The cleanest solution to this is to have her gmail set up to >forward to [email protected] (not @foo.com to avoid a mail >loop), and have hostname.foo.com running a mail server to >accept mail for her account (and any others like this). If you >wanted to get fancy you could make hostname.foo.com a >secondary MX that forwards mail for @foo.com to the primary MX >(gmail) but that's likely to be a backdoor for spam and >probably not worth it. > > >-- >Hans Fugal ; http://hans.fugal.net > >There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit >the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself. > -- Johann Sebastian Bach > >/* >PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net >Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug >Don't fear the penguin. >*/ > /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
