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Originally Posted by DavidAllen
Martin you are a star - thank you
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It was my pleasure
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Just one more question
When I spoke to the other hosts they were talking of a secondary MX record - do I need one?
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Well its depends on your need, for example: let the domain in question be martin.com.
You have changed mail.martin.com to point eukhost but you still wish to have mails working in case eukhost mails are down then you need a secondary MX record that is mail2.martin.com.
You just have you ADD an entry in the DNS, just below the main MX record to make it look like:
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martin.com. IN MX 0 mail.martin.com
martin.com. IN MX 10 mail2.martin.com
In the above example mail.martin.com in primary mail server because it has priority set to '0' and mail2.martin.com is secondary mail server as the priority for it is set to 10. Mail will only route to mail2.martin.com if mail.martin.com does not respond in time and you can have multiple more of them with priority 20 30 40 etc.
Just make sure that your subdomain mail2.martin.com points to the correct
'A' record to point to the correct mail server. Also that mail server should hold an email account for your domain.