Hosting email without controlling the TLD.

Hey everyone,

I have a quick question as a result of discussing hosting with a potential client. The client wishes for me to host their email for their small business. However, their TLD domain, website, etc were all initially setup through a hosting service the vendor of their products offered. Initially it appeared that the vendor would relinquish the domain name from their GoDaddy account to my GoDaddy account. Then I would create the TXT and CNAME and A records to point the www records over to the vendors hosting service for the clients website. All because the vendor will host a website, but not email.

Now, the vendor doesn't want to relinquish the domain and wishes to modify the DNS of the clients domain name to send email to my hosting. Is that possible with DirectAdmin? It sounds like a massive hassle and I honestly don't have a problem telling the client I will bill them for setting them up with GMail's business branded service, though they'd be paying more than what I'd charge them per month.

Thoughts on this??

Hello,

All what you need to handle mails for a domain on a directadmin server (e.g. 1.2.3.4) is to:

1. add a domain in directadmin (e.g. domain.com)
2. point MX to a directadmin server with A-type records for mail.domain.com, pop.domain.com, smtp.domain.com.


3. create emails per needs.
4. configure spamassassin, spam filters per needs.
5. use SMTP/POP/IMAP/Webmail

For webmail you can create:


and add webmail.domain.com an alias for domain.com to access: http://webmail.domain.com/roundcube/ or https://webmail.domain.com/roundcube/

That's it.

Don't forget about the RDNS, SPF and DKIM settings.

That's what I thought, but I wanted to make sure. Just for confirmation, even though I don't have access to the registrar with the domain on it to point it to my hosting servers name servers, I went ahead and added their domain name to an account on the server and have everything setup.

zEitEr said:

Hello,

All what you need to handle mails for a domain on a directadmin server (e.g. 1.2.3.4) is to:

1. add a domain in directadmin (e.g. domain.com)
2. point MX to a directadmin server with A-type records for mail.domain.com, pop.domain.com, smtp.domain.com.

Code:

mail.domain.com. IN    A    1.2.3.4
pop.domain.com.  IN    A    1.2.3.4
smtp.domain.com. IN    A    1.2.3.4
domain.com.      IN    MX   mail.domain.com.

3. create emails per needs.
4. configure spamassassin, spam filters per needs.
5. use SMTP/POP/IMAP/Webmail

For webmail you can create:

Code:

webmail.domain.com.      IN    A    1.2.3.4

and add webmail.domain.com an alias for domain.com to access: http://webmail.domain.com/roundcube/ or https://webmail.domain.com/roundcube/

That's it.

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