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Is it possible to do this? I can get mail forwarded by the domain name host to my dyndns site but not routed through to exchange.Exchange needs to think its a particular namespace (for return addressing) but not actually be. I'm pretty sure its DNS reverse look-up that needs to be modified by the ISP (go-between). Anyone dealt with this? What are the dyndsn side settings? what are the exchange side? To explain it better I have a hosted site http://www.example.com and http://mail.example.com with mail forwarding from http://mail.example.com to http://mail.example.dyndns.org and mail needs to look like its @example.com. I can forward to and from http://mail.example.com. My isp in the middle is http://ns.other.com or http://ns1.other.com. If you've had experience with this type of config, what package (if any) from http://dyndns.org suits me best. I could use another dynamic dns service if needed. but http://dyndns.org was free and of course built-in. I have port forwarding setup in the router to my internal ip on all ports ms listsw as used by exchange (beyond SMTP-25). I just wish I could use UNIX on this pain-in-the-ass, but it HAS TO BE ms-exchange due to a software issue. Any help would be greatly appreaciated. |
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1) What do you mean when you say that you have forwarded the e-mail from your domain to your DynDNS hostname? Have you modified the MX records for your domain to point to your DynDNS host, or are you using some kind of forwarding/relaying feature within your hosting provider's mail system (so that incoming e-mail to your domain is first received by your hosting provider, and then relayed to your home server)? 2) Do not use http://mail.example.dyndns.org. I assume you're using Dynamic DNS Pro, since you're referring to a wildcard alias. A mail server must be referenced with an A or AAAA record. In other words: Use your hostname without any subdomain prefix. 3) If you haven't already, check out DynDNS' Custom DNS service, which enables you to use your own domain with DynDNS. They also provide a series of MailHop services for various e-mail needs. It seems to me that your biggest challenge at this point is configuring your e-mail server and/or MX records, though, and you probably wouldn't be able to benefit much from any of these other services until you get those issues figured out first. 1) no i directly modify mx records to point to my dyndns hostname. its not handled. Should I have it handled? that seems like it would be more work (and possibly something for the hosting co. to charge me for) 2)how do i give my server an A or AAAA record? 3)would custom DNS provide tech support? Also, can you recommend a better board for finding out exchange info? i.y.e.: "configuring your e-mail server " also: does my exchange server or DNS have mx-records that need to be configured too? (in addition to the hosted ones) thanks alot for your help
Jan 28 at 12:33 AM
DaveQuestion
1) No, I agree with you. Setting the MX record to point to your server is your safest option. 2) If your DynDNS hostname is a normal host ("Host with IP address"), then it is an A record :-)
Jan 28 at 01:31 AM
VikingTiger ♦
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