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How to Change your MX Records to use Arrowmail ServicesWhat are MX Records?MX records are a specific type of DNS record, stored on 1000s of DNS servers
around the Internet, which form the mechanism for getting emails delivered to
the right place. The MX Record Priority SystemThere can be multiple MX records for an email domain, and
each MX record has a priority, which is a number
between 0 and 99. How to Change your MX RecordsIn order to use some of Arrowmail's services you have to make changes to your MX
records. How can I find out my current MX Records?Here's how to find out:- |
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If you are just using our Lost Email Protection service then you keep your existing MX records and add the 3 Arrowmail MX records as additional lower priority entries:- |
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In the above example the actual MX priority numbers don't matter as long as the
priority for your company's mail-server is higher (lower number) than the
priority for the Arrowmail mail-servers. My Domain Registrar limits the number of MX records I can createIn this case you can just add a single MX record for the Arrowmail servers and
we'll use our own DNS system to load balance and fail-over between them. |
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