Person has his website on one server but wants to host only his email with me. So, I have him change his DNS record for mail to the ip address of my server?
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I host only the MX, mail.domain.com, webmail.domain.com, smtp.domain.com and his spf record?
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I just give him the IP's to setup pointing to my server and I don't run DNS.? If this is true, then all I need to do is setup the email accounts and disable DNS yes? Create the domain without www and go forward?
Clear as mud?
Thanks.
How do I host only mail?
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Galactic Zero
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the simplest option is for him to change thr MX record to point to an A record that points to your server's IP.
You don't need any DNS information on your server at all.
If he wants webmail then I'm not sure what the situation is. webmail.domain.com in plesk is actually a redirect so I don't *think* you can just have a webmail.hisdomain.com A record pointing to your server's IP address. Hopefully someone will pipe up and let us know what to do.
If he wants to send mail using your server then ask him to use whatever A record you have pointing to your server as the smtp server address (e.g. the one the MX record points to).
And yes, disable DNS for that domain since it is hosted elsewhere.
If this webmail thing is going to be a problem then you should set up the domain in full on your server, without the hosting, and do the DNS for it too. Then make hisdomain.com point to his hosting account on his existing server. This will take care of the www. too since in Plesk it is a CNAME for hisdomain.com A record. Then you'll need to make webmail.hisdomains.com an A record pointing to your server's IP and various other adjustments like making mail. an A record pointing to your server. Oh gods. Very complicated. But you get the idea and you can, to simplify things, just turn the www. into an A record pointing to his web hosting server though in that case visitors to hisdomain.com as opposed to www.hisdomain.com won't get his website. At least I think this is what you'd do. Now that I write it it sounds very complicated. Why not just ask him to use www.mail2web.com for webmail? hehe.
Faris.
You don't need any DNS information on your server at all.
If he wants webmail then I'm not sure what the situation is. webmail.domain.com in plesk is actually a redirect so I don't *think* you can just have a webmail.hisdomain.com A record pointing to your server's IP address. Hopefully someone will pipe up and let us know what to do.
If he wants to send mail using your server then ask him to use whatever A record you have pointing to your server as the smtp server address (e.g. the one the MX record points to).
And yes, disable DNS for that domain since it is hosted elsewhere.
If this webmail thing is going to be a problem then you should set up the domain in full on your server, without the hosting, and do the DNS for it too. Then make hisdomain.com point to his hosting account on his existing server. This will take care of the www. too since in Plesk it is a CNAME for hisdomain.com A record. Then you'll need to make webmail.hisdomains.com an A record pointing to your server's IP and various other adjustments like making mail. an A record pointing to your server. Oh gods. Very complicated. But you get the idea and you can, to simplify things, just turn the www. into an A record pointing to his web hosting server though in that case visitors to hisdomain.com as opposed to www.hisdomain.com won't get his website. At least I think this is what you'd do. Now that I write it it sounds very complicated. Why not just ask him to use www.mail2web.com for webmail? hehe.
Faris.
You should post a new topic for this leagle otherwise nobody will see it and the people who know best how to help you won't know you need help 
Joomla is much more interesting than Mambo. You would normally add it as a Custom Button, and simply not enable Mambo for the client.
I'm not sure about the rest though -- but like I say, start a new topic for this, under General.
Joomla is much more interesting than Mambo. You would normally add it as a Custom Button, and simply not enable Mambo for the client.
I'm not sure about the rest though -- but like I say, start a new topic for this, under General.