More DNS-zone control

I answered this today in a different thread.

It's just a simple misunderstanding. You can do it; you simply enter mail.externaldomain.com and the number 10. Those are the values. The record is created with your current domain name.

Jeff
 
DirectAdmin Support said:
Change the MX from "mail.externaldomain.com" to "some.external.server". Note that DA shows it flipped.. the "mail.externaldomain.com" is on the left in the GUI, but it's on the right in the actual zone file.

Also, you need to tell exim it's external:
http://help.directadmin.com/item.php?id=8

John
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Thanks John, that's an answer I can actually understand. Now, to further complicate things, I have a few clients that have in-office mail servers, but they use me as their backup mail server.

So it looks like this:

A Record:

mail.clientdomain.com IN A [client IP address of their mail server]

MX Records:

clientdomain.com IN MX 20 mail.[my web hosting domain].com
clientdomain.com IN MX 10 mail.clientdomain.com

So what this does is send mail traffic to their mail server, but if that fails, it sends mail to the DA server. I have their pop boxes set up the same way they have them set up on their in-office server.

So if someone trips over the power plug in their office, they still get all their mail.

I think this may be the one single thing that was actually much easier and way more flexible in H-Sphere, and it's looking to be pretty impossible in DA. I hope I get proven wrong on that point.
 
If you want more than one MX record then just add it. Its under the section about managing MX records. I actually have 4 MX records. 2 are fake to control spam and 1 is a backup.
 
I'm sorry for digging up this ancient thread, but I am +1 for the idea that it would be nice for more granular control of the DNS entries.
 
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