Changing your Zimbra Hosted Mail DNS Records to an External Provider

Please note: You must be using iiNet or Westnet as your DNS host for this to be effective. To confirm your DNS provider, follow the steps in Determining your DNS Provider.

1. Log in to the Hosting Control Panel.
2. Under the Domains section, click Hosted Domains.
   
3. Click the domain you wish to modify.
   
4. Select the DNS tab.
   
5. Click DNS Records. 
   
6. If the DNS Records tab isn’t available and the following message is displayed, the DNS for your domain is managed by an external provider. If you are not sure who this is, please follow the steps in Determining your DNS Provider or call our Domains and Hosting team on 1300 378 638 for assistance.
   
7. In the DNS zone, you'll see the three Hosted Exchange DNS records:

   - MX (hosted-inbound.iinet.net.au or mulgara.westnet.com.au)
   - CNAME (hostedmail.iinet.net.au or mail.westnet.com.au)
   - TXT (Usually beginning with v=spf and mentioning iinet.net.au or westnet.com.au)

   
    
   Please note: It’s important to keep these records active until you have completed all the steps below. Once you’ve successfully completed the move to your new email host, these can be deleted by ticking the check boxes and selecting Delete.

8. Take note of the number next to the MX record in the Data column. This is known as the priority, and you will need to add the new record at a higher priority. We’ll explain this further in the next step.

9. Add the new DNS records by selecting from the DNS Record Type drop-down menu.
   
   MX Record
   - Leave the Mail domain field blank. (If your provider mentions entering ‘@’ also leave the field blank, the record will still create correctly).
   - Under Preference, select the number (priority) required or use Custom to enter it manually. The number used for your new MX record must be lower than the number on your existing record. For example, if the existing is 10, you can use 5 or 0.
   - Enter the record for the new provider in the Mail exchanger field.
   - In most cases the TTL can be left as default. If your provider recommends changing it, select Custom and enter the number required.
   - Click Finish to save.
   
    
   TXT Record
   - Unless specified by the email provider, leave the Domain field blank. If they have specified an entry, such as ‘validation.exampledomain.com.au’ you only need to enter the data before the first dot, your domain name will be automatically added to the end of the record.
   - Enter the required record in the Data field. If the suggested entry is surrounded by quotation marks, remove them first as our system adds them automatically.
   - Click Finish to save.
   
    
   CNAME Record
   - Enter the first part of the record (without your domain name) in the Domain field.
   - Enter the remainder of the record in the Canonical Name field. All entries in this field must finish with a dot (full stop), e.g. "mydomain.com" should be entered as "mydomain.com.".
   - Click Finish to save.
   

For assistance with creating or modifying DNS records, please contact our Domains and Hosting team on 1300 378 638.