What is the proper way to set up external mail server in cpanel?

[eglwolf]

I have a new client that hosts his own exchange server. I have the server IP, and have set up a subdomain of mail.domain.com to point to that IP.I have then set up the mx entry to use mail.domain.com


However it is not routing there. I removed the domain from the localdomain list and moved it to the remotedomains list.

What I am doing wrong - I really your feedback and help on this.

[BlueZebra]

what does
dig MX domain.com give?

[eglwolf]

; <<>> DiG 9.2.4 <<>> mx domain.com
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 17089
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 3

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;domain.com. IN MX

;; ANSWER SECTION:
domain.com. 11374 IN MX 0 domain.com.

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
domain.com. 83374 IN NS ns1.equivity.com.
domain.com. 83374 IN NS ns2.equivity.com.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
domain.com. 11374 IN A 76.74.146.42
ns1.equivity.com. 94661 IN A 76.74.146.42
ns2.equivity.com. 106784 IN A 76.74.146.43

;; Query time: 1 msec
;; SERVER: 76.74.146.39#53(76.74.146.39)
;; WHEN: Fri Feb 29 11:00:03 2008
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 139

[verdon]

;; ANSWER SECTION:
domain.com. 11374 IN MX 0 domain.com.

shouldn't that be
domain.com. 11374 IN MX 0 mail.domain.com.

[eglwolf]

I changed the MX to point to mail.domain.com, and then create a CNAME for both the mail and www.mail and still nothing.

The mail log reads:
2008-02-29 11:20:44 H=gv-out-0910.google.com [216.239.58.185] F=<> temporarily rejected RCPT <hairedbw8@domain.com>: lowest numbered MX record points to local host

[verdon]

I changed the MX to point to mail.domain.com, and then create a CNAME for both the mail and www.mail and still nothing.t

I think it's an A record that you need. I have a number of these setup and they are all...

domain.com. 14400 IN MX 0 mail.domain.com.
mail 14400 IN A 11.22.333.444

and then move the domain from
/etc/localdomains

to
/etc/remotedomains

[gorilla]

here is a little tut to help u along

http://www3.wiredgorilla.com/content/view/312/1/

[pjmignone]

In this set up forwarding mail to exchange do you still set up mailbox so nonexistant addresses are rejected and is mail still filtered for spam & anti-virus
Thanks!
PEte

[gorilla]

In the setup mentioned above all mail gets automaticaly redirected to your external exchange server, without affecting your cPanel exim mail server

[pjmignone]

In the setup mentioned above all mail gets automaticaly redirected to your external exchange server, without affecting your cPanel exim mail server

Thank You!
Pete

[pjmignone]

Apparently uncheck this box
Always accept mail locally even if the primary mx does not point to this server. (Domain owned by phillibe)
in dns editing moves the domain from localdomain to remote. Thanks you for your assistance it worked.

[smksa]

In the setup mentioned above all mail gets automaticaly redirected to your external exchange server, without affecting your cPanel exim mail server

Hi,

May i know if by setting up MX record to use the external mailserver, does it forward all the email sent using sendmail Eg: php mail() script to use the external mail server ?

Or it only works fior the user who use SMTP or IMAP to sent out email only ?