Correcting Zoho's MX template

[twhiting9275]

I haven't done a ton of digging into DA in quite some time, but after moving things around a bit (from gmail to zoho, and a few other things), I discovered that the Zoho template is set to use their eu MX servers, instead of those locally. So, for those in the US (many are), you may find this handy. All of this requires SSH access, and root. So, if you don't have that, point smeone who does to this thread

1. login to SSH as root
2. navigate to /usr/local/directadmin/data/templates/mx
3. copy the zoho.eu.txt to zoho.com.txt
4. open up the zoho.com.txt in your favorite editor, and paste the following
   
   

5. |?NAME=Zoho Mail (US)|
   |?EXTRA_SPF=include:zoho.com|
   |?SPF_STRICT=-all|
   |?LOCAL_DOMAIN=no|
   |DOMAIN|. 3600 IN MX 10 mx.zoho.com.
   |DOMAIN|. 3600 IN MX 20 mx2.zoho.com.
   |DOMAIN|. 3600 IN MX 50 mx3.zoho.com.

6. edit zoho.eu.txt and change the top line to identify it as Zoho Mail (EU)
7. restart directadmin

I'm not sure if this will get overwritten on upgrade in the future, but this is a pretty decent workaround to having to correct the template every time you switch the MX entries

 

[factor]

Follow this.

Version 1.56.0 | Directadmin Docs

DirectAdmin Knowledge Base

www.directadmin.com

CUSTOM TEMPLATES
You can add more .txt files into the templates/mx directory (in theory they could be overwritten if we ever "happen" to include files with those names),
but if you want to override the 2 .txt files.. or just add more in a more clear way, this is the custom mx templates path:
/usr/local/directadmin/data/templates/mx/custom/

I think you will really like zoho to.

added feedback here

Document custom mx template process - Feature requests - DirectAdmin Feedback

forum.directadmin.com/threads/correcting-zohos-mx-template.62988/post-326137 in the docs there is not a how to customize mx templates You have to hope you find the feature link www.directadmin.com/features.php?id=2285

feedback.directadmin.com

 

[zEitEr]

1. navigate to /usr/local/directadmin/data/templates/mx
2. copy the zoho.eu.txt to zoho.com.txt

MX templates can be customized if copied to templates/mx/custom directory.

More details: https://docs.directadmin.com/directadmin/general-usage/all-directadmin-conf-values.html#mx-templates

 

[twhiting9275]

thread necro much?

 

[zEitEr]

thread necro much?

This is the first link found in Google. The same question was asked on the forums today, and I shared the link.