Changing MX records from the admin level

[floyd]

There needs to be a checkbox for "Use this server to handle my emails."

 

[nobaloney]

I don't understand; can you explain further? By default servers set up with DirectAdmin do handle all emails.

Jeff

 

[floyd]

Many are going there to change MX records and then they find they cannot use the same server to send email to that domain at the external mail server. Also any mailto scripts will not be able to send email to the external mail server.

We have been telling people to login as the user and change MX records that way and uncheck the box. But sometimes the admin does it from the admin level.

 

[nobaloney]

Are you suggesting a checkbox in the admin-level DNS? On a per-domain level? I'm not sure where you'd put that; the DNS administration screen simply administers zone file lines. Where would you do the checkbox? It really has nothing to do with DNS; it's a per-domain setting. Other per-domain settings are done on the user level. Does this one have to be different?

I suppose if I'd like to see anything else at all, it would be to have MX Records available from the user level even if other DNS settings aren't.

Jeff

 

[floyd]

The admin should be allowed to remove the domain from at /etc/virtual/domains file at the time he changes the MX records in DNS Administration. Currently there is no way to remove the domain from the /etc/virtual/domains file at all from the admin level except the file editor if that file is allowed.

It just seems weird that a user can do something that an admin cannot and that the admin has to login as the user to get it done.

I don't need it at all. Other admins do because they don't realize that the domain has to be removed when changing MX records.