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Email configuration -CNAME records - on server

Hello

I have customer which site domain*.net (e) is hosted on my server.

domain*.com is his site too, (but is hosted by another hoster) and as *.com is operational site, he ask me to set for domain*.net records of domain*.com

so just now records for domain*.net are:

Code:



 

domain*.net - 14400 in A - IP of second hoster

localhost.domain*.net -1440 in A -127.0.0.1

domain*.net 14400 ub MX - 0

www -14400 in CNAME - domain*.com

FTP -14400 in A - IP of second hoster

everything works nice, untill my client need to setup emails on this domain - domain*.net

i setup emails via cpanel, but if client try to connect via mail program (f.e. outlook express), he got an error. [as mail program try to connect to domain*.net which is pointed to domain*.com]

so my question is, is there any way, to change (add) any record, and as result have working emails on domain*.net ?

P.s. As i know, i must setup A or CNAME records of "mail" to my ip of domain*.net

pls correct me, if i'm wrong ?

any advice will be appreciated

P.p.s. try to setup IP of domain.net as pop3 and smtp mailservers, but
some messages are bounced with such error

Delivery to the following recipient has been delayed:

Message will be retried for 2 more day(s)

Technical details of temporary failure:
TEMP_FAILURE: Could not initiate SMTP conversation with any hosts:
[domain.net. (0): Connection timed out]
[domain.com. (10): Connection timed out]

You shouldn't be using CNAME records. Rather than pick apart your zone file (of which you should have posted the whole thing) that same zone could be written as such:

Code:

$TTL 86400

@      IN      SOA    ns1.mynameserver.com.  webmaster.mydomain.com. (

                2006012201 ; serial

                7200 ; refresh

                1800 ; retry

                1209600 ; expire

                86400 ; ttl

                        )



; name servers

                IN      NS      ns1.mynameserver.com.

                IN      NS      ns2.mynameserver.com.



; mail servers (FQDNs here)

@              IN      MX      1      mail.domain.com.

@              IN      MX      20      mail2.domain.com.

; proper SPF record

                IN      TXT    "v=spf1 A MX -ALL"



; need both of these defined for compatibility

; with various clients

@              IN      A      123.123.123.123

*              IN      A      123.123.123.123



; start matching subdomains to ip addresses

www          IN      A      123.123.123.123

mail        IN      A      123.123.123.123

mail2        IN      A      124.124.124.124

ftp          IN      A      123.123.123.123

localhost    IN      A      123.123.123.123

All you're doing here is assigning (for example) www.domain.com to 123.123.123.123, mail2.domain.com to 124.124.124.124 and so on.

YOu are missing a MX Record.