web server + separate mail server = same domain name possible?

April 12, 2015 9.1k views
Email Ubuntu DNS LEMP
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My situation:

  1. one web server for my public website (mydomain.org)
  2. one mail server for my website (mail.mydomain.org)

My goal:
Emails on mail server look like this: user@myname.org (not user@mail.myname.org)

Is this possible?

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3 Answers
thinkingmedia April 13, 2015

Yes,

You have to add a MX record to the DNS for “mydomain.org”. The MX record points to “mail.mydomain.org”. When mail servers resolve “user@mydomain.org” they will query the MX record for “mydomain.org” and get told to fetch email from “mail.mydomain.org”. That DNS can point to any IP you want to use as your email server.

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Woet April 12, 2015

Yes.

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saeedyari97 September 4, 2019

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