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Peekay
How do I accept pop.mydomain.com as a mail server address on my VPS?

  • 2006/2/13 16:39

  • Peekay

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I just signed up for a VPS hosting account with Plesk control panel. For the moment, I'm using my registrar's DNS controls and nameservers. The domain settings that work o.k. with the VPS are:

@        A   212.241.***.***
www      A   212.241.***.***
mail     A   212.241.***.***
webmail  A   212.241.***.***

and the MX entry of:

mail.mydomain.com   10

Although I have no FTP entry, FTP works fine too.

My problem is, I need to transfer a number of client domains from another host. Their email setup require the incoming mail server address to be:

pop.mydomain.com

rather than mail.mydomain.com.

I would really like to allow pop.mydomain.com to work on my VPS, otherwise I'll have to ask all my customers to change their mail client settings. I have seen some example DNS entries that include:

pop CNAME www

Does anyone know if that addition alone would enable my clients to get their mail after the domain transfer without them having to make any changes in Outlook etc. ?
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Feneex
Re: How do I accept pop.mydomain.com as a mail server address on my VPS?

  • 2006/2/13 16:57

  • Feneex

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  • Since: 2004/12/25


Quote:

Peekay wrote:
I just signed up for a VPS hosting account with Plesk control panel. For the moment, I'm using my registrar's DNS controls and nameservers. The domain settings that work o.k. with the VPS are:

@        A   212.241.***.***
www      A   212.241.***.***
mail     A   212.241.***.***
webmail  A   212.241.***.***

and the MX entry of:

mail.mydomain.com   10

Although I have no FTP entry, FTP works fine too.

My problem is, I need to transfer a number of client domains from another host. Their email setup require the incoming mail server address to be:

pop.mydomain.com

rather than mail.mydomain.com.

I would really like to allow pop.mydomain.com to work on my VPS, otherwise I'll have to ask all my customers to change their mail client settings. I have seen some example DNS entries that include:

pop CNAME www

Does anyone know if that addition alone would enable my clients to get their mail after the domain transfer without them having to make any changes in Outlook etc. ?


domain.com.     MX (10)    mail.domain.com.
mail.domain.com. A            6x.1x.1xx.1xx
pop.domain.com.     CNAME            mail.domain.com.


it should work, but be patient until DNS refresh: 2-48 hours.
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Peekay
Re: How do I accept pop.mydomain.com as a mail server address on my VPS?

  • 2006/2/13 17:30

  • Peekay

  • XOOPS is my life!

  • Posts: 2335

  • Since: 2004/11/20


Thx (again) Feneex

I'll give that a try.
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Peekay
Re: How do I accept pop.mydomain.com as a mail server address on my VPS?

  • 2006/2/14 10:17

  • Peekay

  • XOOPS is my life!

  • Posts: 2335

  • Since: 2004/11/20


I decided to test the 'pop CNAME www' option first and that seems to work. I have seen that particular entry shown as an example in a few places including this site.

For good measure I added:
ftp         CNAME   www
smtp        CNAME   www

Those last two are already defined in the Plesk zone temlates, but I'm using my domain registrar's nameservers for the moment. Unfortunately, their default DNS entries for new domains are simply '@' and 'www' so I have to add the above manually. I hope to switch to using private namservers and use the Plesk DNS soon.
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