[thelist] can I send email to a subdomain?

Kelly Hallman khallman at wrack.org
Thu Oct 16 10:37:01 CDT 2003


On Thu, 16 Oct 2003, mike karthauser wrote:
> on 16/10/03 3:27 pm, Richard Bennett at richard.bennett at skynet.be wrote:
> > I wasn't sure whether it was possible for the regular email to be continued
> > to be handled by the ISP, while the subdomain mail went to our mailserver.
> 
> If you got an email server running on a server on a subdomain (in house for
> example) - your subdomain email is handled by your subdomain server - your
> standard email will still go through your isp.

You will need to set up an MX record for the subdomain, or all mail will 
still be routed to the main mail server. The MX record needs to be added 
to the nameservers for your domain, probably controlled by your ISP.

-- 
Kelly Hallman
http://wrack.org/




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