No MX records used - Needing to route to Google and localhost

Hi everyone. I'm at your mercy here right now, as I've been scourging
the web trying to figure this one out. Quickly, this is the situation:

We're using Sendmail with Dovecot as our imap/pop interface and
Squirrelmail as our webmail client.

Domain: owl.english.purdue.edu

I've recently taken over as web administrator for our server, so I'm
still trying to get my bearings on what the previous webmaster has set
up. He unfortunately left VERY LITTLE information upon his departure
for our organization regarding the server.

I've ran checks on our domain, and it appears that we do not have any
MX records shown. I've dug through terminal and I see all of the
sendmail files, but regarding how to read them has been a bit of a
headache. Our email addresses show us using
'username@owl.english.purdue.edu', which leads me to believe that we
are using A names instead of MX records.

I'm needing to change our MX records (if they even exist) to the
following:

MX Server address Priority
ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM. 1
ALT1.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM. 5
ALT2.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM. 5
ASPMX2.GOOGLEMAIL.COM. 10
ASPMX3.GOOGLEMAIL.COM. 10
ASPMX4.GOOGLEMAIL.COM. 10
ASPMX5.GOOGLEMAIL.COM. 10

While I want mail directed to google, can I also still have it
directed to our unix box, so until we do the full migration and finish
testing how this Google system works, we don't end up moving
everything at once? Basically I want mail sent to
'username@owl.english.purdue.edu' to be directed at both Google and
Localhost. Is this possible?

Also, any assistance at locating/creating/editing our MX record would
be greatly appreciate. I'm at your guys' mercy, as I'm definitely not
as good at Sendmail as you are. ANY assistance is greatly welcome!

Thanks everyone. Hope you're having a great week.

--
Brandon

Re: No MX records used - Needing to route to Google and localhost

On Tue, 23 Oct 2007, Brandon wrote:

> I'm needing to change our MX records (if they even exist) to the
> following:

This actually has nothing to do wit Sendmail, its a DNS issue, talk to
whoever controls your zone file and get them to add whatever records you
want added.

>
> MX Server address Priority
> ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM. 1
> ALT1.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM. 5
> ALT2.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM. 5
> ASPMX2.GOOGLEMAIL.COM. 10
> ASPMX3.GOOGLEMAIL.COM. 10
> ASPMX4.GOOGLEMAIL.COM. 10
> ASPMX5.GOOGLEMAIL.COM. 10
>
> While I want mail directed to google, can I also still have it
> directed to our unix box, so until we do the full migration and finish
> testing how this Google system works, we don't end up moving
> everything at once? Basically I want mail sent to
> 'username@owl.english.purdue.edu' to be directed at both Google and
> Localhost. Is this possible?

Not easily, it cxould be done with a lot of tinkering, but I doubt it is
worth it, just set teh zone TTL in DNS to something short I think the
minimum is like 10 mins, your better off donig that until you move it all
then reset the TTL to a day, but again your DNS admin should know all
this.

--
Cheers
Res

Re: No MX records used - Needing to route to Google and localhost

On Oct 23, 6:22 pm, Res wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Oct 2007, Brandon wrote:
> > I'm needing to change our MX records (if they even exist) to the
> > following:
>
> This actually has nothing to do wit Sendmail, its a DNS issue, talk to
> whoever controls your zone file and get them to add whatever records you
> want added.
>
>
>
>
>
> > MX Server address Priority
> > ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM. 1
> > ALT1.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM. 5
> > ALT2.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM. 5
> > ASPMX2.GOOGLEMAIL.COM. 10
> > ASPMX3.GOOGLEMAIL.COM. 10
> > ASPMX4.GOOGLEMAIL.COM. 10
> > ASPMX5.GOOGLEMAIL.COM. 10
>
> > While I want mail directed to google, can I also still have it
> > directed to our unix box, so until we do the full migration and finish
> > testing how this Google system works, we don't end up moving
> > everything at once? Basically I want mail sent to
> > 'usern...@owl.english.purdue.edu' to be directed at both Google and
> > Localhost. Is this possible?
>
> Not easily, it cxould be done with a lot of tinkering, but I doubt it is
> worth it, just set teh zone TTL in DNS to something short I think the
> minimum is like 10 mins, your better off donig that until you move it all
> then reset the TTL to a day, but again your DNS admin should know all
> this.
>
> --
> Cheers
> Res

Thanks Res! I at least got a direction to go into. Thanks again!

--
Brandonf

Re: No MX records used - Needing to route to Google and localhost

In news:1193175118.101425.286910@q5g2000prf.googlegroups.com,
Brandon wrote:

> Hi everyone. I'm at your mercy here right now, as I've been scourging
> the web trying to figure this one out. Quickly, this is the situation:
>
> We're using Sendmail with Dovecot as our imap/pop interface and
> Squirrelmail as our webmail client.
>
> Domain: owl.english.purdue.edu
>
> I've recently taken over as web administrator for our server, so I'm
> still trying to get my bearings on what the previous webmaster has set
> up. He unfortunately left VERY LITTLE information upon his departure
> for our organization regarding the server.
>
> I've ran checks on our domain, and it appears that we do not have any
> MX records shown. I've dug through terminal and I see all of the
> sendmail files, but regarding how to read them has been a bit of a
> headache. Our email addresses show us using
> 'username@owl.english.purdue.edu', which leads me to believe that we
> are using A names instead of MX records.
>
> I'm needing to change our MX records (if they even exist) to the
> following:
>
> MX Server address Priority
> ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM. 1
> ALT1.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM. 5
> ALT2.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM. 5
> ASPMX2.GOOGLEMAIL.COM. 10
> ASPMX3.GOOGLEMAIL.COM. 10
> ASPMX4.GOOGLEMAIL.COM. 10
> ASPMX5.GOOGLEMAIL.COM. 10

Holy shit, is this a joke of some kind? One of the top Universities in the
country requiring googlemail?

$ nslookup -query=MX purdue.edu
Server: ...
Address: ...#53

Non-authoritative answer:
purdue.edu mail exchanger = 10 smtp.purdue.edu.

Authoritative answers can be found from:
purdue.edu nameserver = pendragon.cs.purdue.edu.
purdue.edu nameserver = ns.purdue.edu.
purdue.edu nameserver = ns1.rice.edu.
purdue.edu nameserver = ns2.rice.edu.
purdue.edu nameserver = harbor.ecn.purdue.edu.
harbor.ecn.purdue.edu internet address = 128.46.154.76
pendragon.cs.purdue.edu internet address = 128.10.2.5

$ whois purdue.edu
Domain Name: PURDUE.EDU

Registrant:
Purdue University
501 Harrison Street
SCCA Room 36
West Lafayette, IN 47907
UNITED STATES

Administrative Contact:
Scott M. Ballew
Sr. Network Architect
Purdue University
501 Harrison Street
SCCA Room 36
West Lafayette, IN 47907
UNITED STATES
(765) 496-8232
smbatpurduedaughtedu

Technical Contact:
Kenneth F. Rice
Purdue University
501 Harrison Street
SCCA
West Lafayette, IN 47907
UNITED STATES
(765) 496-8320
riceatpurduedaughtedu

Name Servers:
NS.PURDUE.EDU 128.210.11.5
NS1.RICE.EDU
PENDRAGON.CS.PURDUE.EDU 128.10.2.5
HARBOR.ECN.PURDUE.EDU 128.46.154.76

Domain record activated: 24-Apr-1985
Domain record last updated: 11-Dec-2006
Domain expires: 31-Jul-2008

> Also, any assistance at locating/creating/editing our MX record would
> be greatly appreciate. I'm at your guys' mercy, as I'm definitely not
> as good at Sendmail as you are. ANY assistance is greatly welcome!

Use the resources at your disposal to ask the people at your own network
what needs to be done to get your DNS configured properly to include MX
records for your subdomain.

Re: No MX records used - Needing to route to Google and localhost

In article <5o82vvFliocdU1@mid.individual.net>,
"ynotssor" wrote:

> In news:1193175118.101425.286910@q5g2000prf.googlegroups.com,
> Brandon wrote:
>
> > Hi everyone. I'm at your mercy here right now, as I've been scourging
> > the web trying to figure this one out. Quickly, this is the situation:
> >
> > We're using Sendmail with Dovecot as our imap/pop interface and
> > Squirrelmail as our webmail client.
> >
> > Domain: owl.english.purdue.edu
> >
> > I've recently taken over as web administrator for our server, so I'm
> > still trying to get my bearings on what the previous webmaster has set
> > up. He unfortunately left VERY LITTLE information upon his departure
> > for our organization regarding the server.
> >
> > I've ran checks on our domain, and it appears that we do not have any
> > MX records shown. I've dug through terminal and I see all of the
> > sendmail files, but regarding how to read them has been a bit of a
> > headache. Our email addresses show us using
> > 'username@owl.english.purdue.edu', which leads me to believe that we
> > are using A names instead of MX records.
> >
> > I'm needing to change our MX records (if they even exist) to the
> > following:
> >
> > MX Server address Priority
> > ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM. 1
> > ALT1.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM. 5
> > ALT2.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM. 5
> > ASPMX2.GOOGLEMAIL.COM. 10
> > ASPMX3.GOOGLEMAIL.COM. 10
> > ASPMX4.GOOGLEMAIL.COM. 10
> > ASPMX5.GOOGLEMAIL.COM. 10
>
> Holy shit, is this a joke of some kind? One of the top Universities in the
> country requiring googlemail?

It looks more like a project of one department that runs its own
independent mail system for its own people using its own subdomain. Very
common in academia. It results in things like English majors doing
system administration as work-study jobs...

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Now where did I hide that website...