Hosting Email ONLY

Thought I would run this by some of you.

I am hosting email only for a client. The web hosting is being handled by another service. DNS is being handled by other host, except for what I need to setup proper email service.

So I have done the following:

1. I setup an account using his existing domain name.
2. I selected the xmail skin to simplyfy the control panel for the user.
3. I instructed the client to change his MX and DNS records on their existing server to point my way. MX is setup as follows: existing.domainname.com. IN MX 10 mail.existing.domainname.com. and an A record for mail that points to the IP address to my server.

On my server, I let the account creation script setup the account as normal.

Does this seem correct?? If not, anyone have a concrete idea on setting this up properly??

Thanks for the help!
Brian

 

Thanks for the quick reply Chirpy.

So I SSH'd into my server and rm'ed the zone file in /var/named that the account creation script made. That file did exist and I was wondering about the havoc that would cause if I left it there. I double-checked that the domain existed in /etc/localdomains. I am assuming that the MX record that needs to be setup is on THEIR current authoritative DNS server and not mine as I no longer have a domain record for them). Hopefully when we test tomorrow, all will be good!!

Again, thanks!!!
Brian