We are considering outsourcing our email so that we can use a webmail service with automated signup (this will be in a protected directory and tightly controlled).

In order to do so, we will need to change our MX record. Will this disable our ability to use feedback forms on the site? If so, how can we work around this? Would it be possible to create a subdomain and configure sendmail for that, so that we could use feedback forms?

Thanks!

I'm not sure how EV1 has it setup. But if you change an MX record to point somewhere else it should not be a problem. Just setup your formmail (this may require editing either html or your cgi) to point to relative mail server for that domain name. Or even better yet if you are using formmail on your own box, you can have it utilize a local sendmail process to do your bidding.


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You should only have to change two things, change the DNS record to point to the new mail server for MX:

and setup your local sendmail to not accept mail for that domain. Once your local sendmail isn't accepting mail for that domain, then any mail submitted to it through a local script will be sent on to the appropriate location.

I guess my side of the coin was more extreme... If they change their domain name or they add an mx for another domain/sub/etc then they might have to do some editing of formmail if it points to a new domain.

Anyhow
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This is what I need to do as well, but I can't seem to find specifics on how to go about it. Any suggestions?

This is fairly easy to do if your ISP/Host knows their stuff. I did this for my own email service about 5 years ago.

It's funny that you mention it because now I'll be taking over my mail service. I may even look into outsourcing myself at a later date.

Who have you found to be reliable? Prices?

Thanks.

I wound up just using Squirrelmail, which suits our needs except their is no automated signup (at least I haven't tried to figure that out yet).

Here are some good links:

http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/...ster_Providers/

I was going to go with everyone.net, and we will probably still use them for another site, except we will use the .net domain strictly for email and keep the .com for the main site. They looked the best from what I saw, and they offer an integrated API script for automated signup, except it costs $250 for the script. :eek:

The service itself is only $9.95/month for up to 100 users or so.