Point another website to my server with cName

[mb06]

Hi,

I am going to be hosting a website that is already registered and hosted with another hosting company.
The owner of the domain would like to have all of his emails still processed by the other hosting company’s server.

In the past, if this problem arose, I would ask the hosting company to change the A Record for the domain to point at my server, but it would be impractical in this case because I am changing servers in around 4 weeks.

If I add a cname record for a main domain on my server, what would I put in the domain I want pointed to my server?

Or if there is an different way to do it??

Thanks,

Mark

 

[nobaloney]

The right way to use a different server for email is for the MX records to be pointed to his server; everything else to your server. Using a CNAME record as the target of an MX record will probably work, but it's in violation of RFC 1034 section 3.6.2.

Whether or not the DNS is hosted on your server you still must turn on DNS for the user, then make the necessary changes in the MX Records section. Afterwards you may turn user control of DNS off if you don't want the user to see DNS options.

Jeff