DNS Configuration for Running Your Own Mail Server

If you have hosting with Rucenter, but want to use your own mail server, you need to add the following records to your domain’s zone file: an MX record pointing to your mail server; an A record pointing to the IP address of the mail server.

To add the records, do the following:

1. Open the DNS-master editor and select the domain you want to edit.



2. Add new records:

where:

test.ru. — your domain or host name (the trailing dot is mandatory);
10 — the MX record priority; the value should be set according to existing records;
relay.test.ru. — the mail server hostname (the trailing dot is mandatory);
IP_address_of_your_mail_server — the IP address of your mail server.

3. Upload (publish) the zone to the DNS servers.

Changes will take effect within 1–2 minutes.

You also need to contact your Internet service provider that assigns the IP address for your mail server and request creation of a PTR record with the name of your mail server.