We recently switched ISPs and hosting services. We were getting email via POP3 and now we have an MX record pointing the IP address of my Netgear firewall. Within the firewall I am using port forwarding to forward port 25 to the server nonroutable IP. The server name is server.subdomain.domain.com, the MX record points to mail.domain.com which is the live IP of the firewall. It seems that email is still going to the old ISP even though running an MX lookup gets me the correct record for this domain. I am doing this right?
Where are you checking the MX record? Internally or externally? Also is the Exchange server SMTP connector set up to receive the emails? Check this internally with telnet <internal IP> 25 and confirm you get a banner. Nick "John" wrote in message news:3F502D8A-DFB7-48D5-98C5-17940E3AA096@microsoft.com... > We recently switched ISPs and hosting services. We were getting email via > POP3 and now we have an MX record pointing the IP address of my Netgear > firewall. Within the firewall I am using port forwarding to forward port > 25 > to the server nonroutable IP. The server name is > server.subdomain.domain.com, > the MX record points to mail.domain.com which is the live IP of the > firewall. > It seems that email is still going to the old ISP even though running an > MX > lookup gets me the correct record for this domain. I am doing this right?
