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Posted by Chris De Herrera on July 25, 2007, 4:05 pm
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Hi,
Exchange ActiveSync on a device to sync with a server just looks for the A
record of the dns name you provided.
The MX record is solely used by the rest of the internet for the delivery of
e-mail via port 25.
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Chris De Herrera
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>I have a question on the version 4 releases of activesync(the ones
> that will sync directly with exchange). During setup of activesync on
> a smartphone, you have to tell it how to find your mailserver. You
> can put an english name for the mailserver(mail.company.com). Is it
> safe to assume that so long as that english name has a public dns
> entry, activesync should work. Reason why asking is because we have
> created a public dns entry for the smartphones with activesync, and
> created it as an mx record with a high preference. This entry will
> circumnavigate our spamkiller and will go straight to the exchange
> server, so we are getting spam. I'm thinking of taking out the
> smartphone dns entry(mail.company.com)as an mx record and making it an
> A record to resolve the spam issue. Would activesync care about
> this? Or should it work regardless of whether mail.company.com is an
> mx or an a record. Thanks
>
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