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Re: Sending emails over Ipv6 Hi graysonf
Thanks a lot for your reply
I totally understand and agree to the concern you've raised...we'll be sending emails to a lot of other email servers other than that of Google, Yahoo and hotmail
This is how our DNS records are laid out now
The mail server and the A records and in fact all the other records are set on both an A as well as an AAAA address...
Now if I understand your solution properly, I need to set up another mail server with an IP6 address and set it's priority higher than the existing one that is using an IP4 address.
Is that what you're suggesting, thanks! |
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 graysonfPremium,MVM
join:1999-07-16
Fort Lauderdale, FL | No, and I don't know how you got the idea that I suggested that.
You seem to be confusing outgoing mail and incoming mail, and how and where DNS is involved with both. |
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| Ahh...sorry..I am a novice at all this and just trying to learn  |
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 leiboldPremium,MVM
join:2002-07-09
Sunnyvale, CA
kudos:6
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| The MX records for your domain name determine the names of your incoming email servers (whether or not they also handle outgoing email is completely irrelevant) as well as the priority that determines in which order a sender should be trying them.
The A and AAAA records for those email server names provide the IPv4 and IPv6 addresses that are actually used to establish the connection to the email server. In addition the A and AAAA records are used as a fallback if a domain name doesn't have any MX records associated with it.
The same applies in the outgoing direction with the important difference being that it is the MX, A and AAAA records of the destination domain that matter instead of your own DNS records.
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