A mail exchanger MX record is a type of DNS record that identifies which server will handle the incoming mail for your domain. MX records always point to a domain; never to an IP address. When using Just Host name servers, your default MX record is your domain name which contains a local IP address to the server so all mail is handled locally, but this record can be modified to point to a third-party email host, or you can add additional MX records and set their priority.
If you host your email outside of us, your email provider will likely give you their MX Record settings to use. To point your email away from Just Host, obtain the MX destination for your new mail hosting provider and then follow the steps below to either add a new MX record or change an existing one. It can take up to 48 hours before your updated DNS settings are live. The email routing setting in your Zone Editor determines how outgoing email is handled for a particular domain.
There are three possible settings: Local Mail Exchanger. Use this setting if the domain's email is hosted by Just Host, even if the domain uses third-party name servers. Remote Mail Exchanger. Use this setting if the domain's email is not hosted by Just Host and your MX records are pointed to a third-party email server.
Automatically Detect Setting. Use this setting if you aren't sure. The server will decide if the setting should be Local or Remote based on the MX record. This is usually not recommended. Sign up to join this community.
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Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. That's the issue - the email server will be the same. The building is switching to a new IP address pool and therefore only one of the IPs can be active at a time So I can't set up anything on the old one.. As long the the DNS admins are not setting unreasonably long times for their minimum TTL I support their actions to defeat these illegal operations.
However, it does make transitions more difficult. Idiots have been overriding TTLs for a lot longer than spammers have been using fast-flux, and overriding TTLs obviously isn't working because spammers are still doing it. TTLs are not the place to be fighting spam. They're still going in the fire.
Exactly, the side-effect is that DNS changes can take, literally, up to 24h to propagate fully. Show 1 more comment. Also - anything I should know about the SOA serial? I have never done much DNS administration, only moving from one hosting provider to another, where all the actual DNS records were set for me, I just had to input the delegation at the registrar. The point of having multiple MX records is to have more than one valid path in case something goes down. In effect, you are just failing over to the existing server until it gets reconfigured.
If you see errors when sending an email from one Bluehost domain to another, or if emails sent to a particular domain never arrive, it's possible that your email routing setting needs to be updated. If you're not using Bluehost to host your emails, you'll need to change the domain's email routing setting to Remote.
Check your email routing settings to ensure that any domains using Bluehost's mail servers are set to Local , and domains using a third-party mail host are set to Remote. That is usually a symptom of an incorrect email routing setting. Make sure your Bluehost-hosted domains are set to Local , and domains with email hosted with a third party are set to Remote. If it appears the setting is already correct, change the setting and change it back. This will ensure the email route rule is correctly applied to your domain.
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