Setting up Exchange 2003 to test new Spam Service
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Way out of my experience here & looking for advice to prevent an epic fuckup.
I've got an ancient Ex2003 server that I need to test out a new anti-spam/virus service on. Never done this before and I don't want to break anything.
I see that adding a SMTP connector is pretty straight forward http://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/kb/265293
But what if you already have one? Is 2 ok? I think so but that leads me to....MX records - can you have two? How does it sort them out?
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@MattSpeller said:
MX records - can you have two? How does it sort them out?
MX records are done by the priority you give them.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
@MattSpeller said:
MX records - can you have two? How does it sort them out?
MX records are done by the priority you give them.
What he said, you give them a priority level and that's how the sender behaves. Additionally if you give them all the same priority, they work round-robin.
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@MattSpeller said:
MX records - can you have two? How does it sort them out?
It's common to have more than two. It's very rare that someone would have only one, it takes a lot more infrastructure to only have one and still be reliable. Generally you only see a single MX record with the biggest enterprise services (Office 365) or with test / lab setups where reliability doesn't matter.
