mailing list mx

[josephhelt]

I'm having trouble setting up my mx for mailing lists. I have my website registered at register.com and I've outsourced my actual website to another company, but they do not have email hosing capabilities. My website domain is baileysinrochester.com

I found this on an expired thread, but I don't know what it means to run the code found below.

Thanks for the help,

-joe

---quote from expired thread---

"Mailing lists are hosted on the community server to allow both direct access to the archives and the use of the site's IP for outgoing emails. As such, the MX for each list domain is dependent on the community server name on which the domain is hosted. To find out the MX for your mailing list domain, run either
Code:

dnsmx lists.example.com

or
Code:

host -tmx lists.example.com"

[Bob]

You would want to Dig our Name servers for the correct entry such as:

$ dig @ns1.FutureQuest.net lists.baileysinrochester.com mx

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;lists.baileysinrochester.com. IN MX

;; ANSWER SECTION:
lists.baileysinrochester.com. 86400 IN MX 12801 nine.futurequest.net.


So set the MX record for lists.baileysinrochester.com as nine.futurequest.net.

-Bob

[josephhelt]

Thanks, Bob. I've changed the MX record and am waiting for register.com to update it.

-joe