DNS Question

[MikeL]

I posted this in the outage thread, but it occurred to me I might have better luck getting an answer here:

I currently have my own domain, registered via 1&1, but have my MX records pointing at the messagingengine.com servers. If I temporarily redirect my MX records to my 1&1 account, will backlogged email go there, or is will it still be in the queue at FastMail?

-Mike

[mcowger]

Originally posted by MikeL
I posted this in the outage thread, but it occurred to me I might have better luck getting an answer here:

I currently have my own domain, registered via 1&1, but have my MX records pointing at the messagingengine.com servers. If I temporarily redirect my MX records to my 1&1 account, will backlogged email go there, or is will it still be in the queue at FastMail?

-Mike

FUTURE email will go there, not backlogged. Byt he time the rest of the internet picks up your MX changes, FM will be fixed, so I'm not sure its such a useful way to go.

[DrStrabismus]

Originally posted by mcowger
Byt he time the rest of the internet picks up your MX changes, FM will be fixed,

A personal domain isn't likely to be very widely cached, I've found that test messages will generally follow the new records immediately. Typically the others will pickup the change within the hour.

[mcowger]

Originally posted by DrStrabismus
A personal domain isn't likely to be very widely cached, I've found that test messages will generally follow the new records immediately. Typically the others will pickup the change within the hour.

I've found that many mailservers out there (not the big F/OSS ones, but I HAVE seen exchange and iPlanet do this) ignore TTL's for MX lookups and just wing it .

[Terry]

I have my own domain with F/m and all my mail is being forwarded to another mailbox and its working well...I cant even log in to F/m.