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MX Records Termination of Contract

travelhigh
Member

Hi All,

 

After months of being bombarded by BT advising

 

  • Important: We're upgrading your email account in a month

repeated several times since mid last year ... then recently this became

 

  • Important: Please update your email settings soon

during this period carefully made sure all accounts correctly aliased, selected preferred names from BT Upgrade Centre all well in advance.. map domains accounts across.  3 domains 2 with BT 1 external ... follow all the links on what to do updates etc fine, aliases fine,  no mention of needing to change MX records prior to upgrade ( how could you if the new service wasn't active), no emails about .invalid MX record to add to external domain.  No MX changes showing on the BT managed domains

 

then

 

  • Service update: Your email account is changing next week

 

Great I think                now today

 

  • BT Business Email service - notice of termination of contract  

     

Reason given

 

"We've written to you previously to advise of changes that you must make to your domain MX records"

 

Of which I have never received any instructions so what needs changing?    No welcome to new service messages at all ... upgrade centre still saying an old date this keeps on changing has kept changing for several months now.  

 

Update from BT upgrade team :  they don't know what the MX records should be either??

 

Any suggestions anyone?

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Burkem5
Guru

please contact the livechat -  we will be able to get you the full MX records,  
each has a generic CNAME record - autodiscover.outlook.com 
you will then need to add a priority 10 record  which will be in the form of [domain].mail.eo.outlook.com 

 

example for the domain mikesbusiness.co.uk - mikesbusiness.co.uk.mail.eo.outlook.com 

you will also need a unique priority 50 record -  you will need to chat with BT to get this,  live chat would be the easiest way to get this as we are mostly an e-mail desk 

 

so to recap 
3 records - 1 of which is a CNAME

 

cname - autodiscover.outlook.com
[domain].mail.eo.outlook.com - priority 10 

unique record - priority 50

please make sure no record has a priority between 1-9