MX Setting for Dynamic DNS Server (and other mail questions)

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Trevor Burns

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I have been using ZoneEdit for a number of years just for the Dynamic DNS services. With the recent changes to support Outbound e-Mail I wanted to test the e-Mail (inbound and outbound) services with one of my domains before doing the switch on the other 2 in my account. I have been wanting to consolidate my services for a while now just to simplify the management of the domains on my account, my current MX provider has decided to motivate me by increasing their yearly costs by 90% (for no additional services/functionality).

Inbound MX to my mail server
1.) According to the forum, I would have to configure an MX record with the server's A record entry and port for the e-mail to transfer to. Is it possible to do the same mapping on with Dynamic DNS entries? When I tried to do a mapping to the Dynamic mail.[mydomain].com (don't want anymore spam :-)), the control panel gave a vague "fix the errors on the page" message. Looking at the help link on the control panel page, it only references A records.

2.) In order for my mail server to process the e-Mails from their MX servers I needed to whitelist the IPs for their e-mail server pool. Is there a similar list for the Inbound service?

3.) For the port mapping service is there currently SPAM filtering enabled or is it the "what is targeted for your domain goes to your domain" and I need to continue to manage SPAM filtering/detection?

4.) Is there a "Credit" charge for the Inbound MX to my mail servers?

Outbound e-Mail Service
1.) When I purchase the credits, do I need to assign credits to all 3 domains (for example: 50 block x 3 or can I do 1 block of 200 [i think] to handle all 3 domains)? Would the outbound service block the sending of messages?

2.) When purchasing credits does that change my account from a Free Legacy ZoneEdit to a Paid subscriber (i.e.: I would then need to use credits for DNS services, etc.)?

I apologize for the number of questions in advance. The good news is, this might act as the starting point for an e-Mail server/service pin in the future.

Trevor B.
 
Hi Trevor.

for dynamic and port forwarding.. one method is to update a dynamic host say dyn.com.com. then create a URL forward where something.domain.com points to dyn.domain.com:port number.

another...
mx would be domain.com handled by mail.domain.com:port number in the actual mx record where mail.domain.com is dynamically updated.


there is no whitelist for incoming IP addresses... and no credits would be needed .
there would be some basic RBL spam services set up in this case.. when you use a port forward on a mail server all mail would be sent through our mailservers first.

for outbound zoneout... credits are required for any add on services and do not turn a free zone info a paid zone.. only the add on service would be billed.

outbound wold have nothing to do with ending rom your own server.

I hope this helps and if I have missed anything please let me know.

thanks
sandy
 
Thank you for the help.

For the (2) on the Inbound, I was looking for the IP address for mailfwd1/mailfwd2 servers. My existing Anti-SPAM system would reduce traffic from the mailfwd servers as a "high volume server" -- a false positive for a high volume spammer. I was able to monitor my logs and whitelisted the addresses, created a regex pattern to "keep an eye out" for new IPs.

I think the issue I was having was caused by the existing MX definition for my old provider. The control panel doesn't seem to clearly alert using two MX's very well when 1 is a domain forward map and the other a different service provider MX setup (i.e.: 1 zone edit forward MX and 1 non-zone edit). I have moved all of my domains to Zone Edit for Inbound processing and will be moving Outbound around January (still have time on my current provider that I want to use up).
 
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