multiple mail servers for one domain

[Hans Fugal]

Merrill Oveson wrote:
> Possible to do....?
> I have a user say joan at foo.com
> 
> I want her to get her email from foo.com
> 
> everyone else is set up to access their email thru gmail.
> 
> The MX record points to gmail.google.com
> 
> Possible to have more that one MX record which essentially splits the
> domain?

The cleanest solution to this is to have her gmail set up to forward to
joan at hostname.foo.com (not @foo.com to avoid a mail loop), and have
hostname.foo.com running a mail server to accept mail for her account
(and any others like this). If you wanted to get fancy you could make
hostname.foo.com a secondary MX that forwards mail for @foo.com to the
primary MX (gmail) but that's likely to be a backdoor for spam and
probably not worth it.


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