tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7794342947779884451.post9213010470284083994..comments2009-05-28T02:06:03.454-04:00danjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11483488793946172482noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7794342947779884451.post-27228005585474585912009-05-28T02:06:03.454-04:002009-05-28T02:06:03.454-04:00Hi danj,<br /><br />Thanks for your help! The problem was that - not having worked much with my DNS server before - I couldn't get this to work. But meanwhile I've finally gotten it to work out, so I'm doing the rerouting by DNS now, as you suggested!<br /><br />Cheers,<br />Stefan.spalanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02040068494574215458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7794342947779884451.post-79066356409451911082009-05-27T16:19:05.386-04:002009-05-27T16:19:05.386-04:00Hi spalan,<br /><br />That's no problem, I'm sorry I missed your comment so late. <br /><br />Some mail servers do not see entries in the host file, or it may see 127.0.0.1 as a loop and skip that MX record. I'd recommend setting up your know DNS server so you control the MX lookup...danjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11483488793946172482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7794342947779884451.post-48898963816084832922009-05-14T15:20:00.000-04:002009-05-14T15:20:00.000-04:00Hi danj,<br /><br />Sorry for being so forward to send you a follow-up question on your post. I'm trying to reroute mails to the domain example.com to my localhost. Simply adding an entry in the hosts file saying "127.0.0.1 mail.example.com" doesn't do the job, because my mailserver (Mercury32) still resolves the external IP for the MX of example.com. Can you please let me know how to add an MX record to the hosts file? I've been searching the net for hours now to find this...<br /><br />Cheers,<br />Stefan.spalanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02040068494574215458noreply@blogger.com