A records pointing to other site MX records here?

[randyriegel]

A friend of mine that wanted an account on my VPS decided not to finish trying to create a site on my VPS and decided to use weebly.com to make a site. He can use the domain name that I had set up for him as long as I point the A record of the domain to the IP address weebly gave him. Everything works fine once I changed A records to point to the IP weebly gave him.

Now for my question. Is there any way to get my email fowarders to work from my server since weebly doesn't have email server? He wants fowarders set up to forward to a few gmail accounts. I thought it might be possible to have my server as the mail server even though the A records are pointing to another IP. Is this possible? I'm not having any luck trying anything.


Randy

[JPC-Bilal]

Hi randyriegel,

If account is hosted with some other hosting provider and you want to handle emails on your server then yes it is possible. First of all create an account in your server using same domain name. Then you need to setup MX record pointing to your server's IP address so that emails can be handled by your server. If you need more details and assistance please open a ticket with technical support department and Techs will assist you. Thank you.

[randyriegel]

Actually what happened was he decided to get another account after having an account setup on my VPS. In order for the domain name to work with "weebly" I needed to go into WHM and change his A records to point to "xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx". As for the domain name, it's through godaddy and the nameservers are set to my VPS. So basically his domain name on godaddy points to my nameservers and then my server points A records to his hosts IP. So this is still possible? Just making sure before I open ticket.

[JPC-Bilal]

Yes, it is possible.

[randyriegel]

Ok, I'll open a ticket. I would really like to know if this is something that could be done through WHM by myself or is there something special you guys have to do on my server. Just in case this ever happened again I'd like to know if it's an easy thing I can do or something more complicated I can do through WHM or command line. I'm very familiar with linux but just don't know alot about DNS stuff. I will open ticket but would also like to know how it's done incase I run into this situation again.

[Ron]

I think you'd be looking for the "Edit DNS Zone" screen.
Lookit how "normal" accounts are set up and make note of how his account is setup, then note the differences after support has completed your ticket!

[JPC-Anoop]

Randy, I have updated your ticket. Please check it and update the ticket to follow up on this.

[jason]

If you had the account set up on your server first and then you just changed the A records for www.domain.com and domain.com to point at a different IP for the website, I would think there is nothing to do to have mail go to your server. If an MX record is present on the domain, that's what gets used to route mail, so if you didn't change it mail should still go to your server.

What you may want to do is set up a DNS record for something like mail.domain.com to that your fiend has an easy to remember address for checking his mail.

--Jason