Question : Question about MX recorods and Email

We currently outsource our email to a service provider and our email addresses actaully use part of their domain - ie., their domain is alpha.net  and our emaill addresses are company.alpha.net.

I am thinking about dropping this company, but was not sure what to do to minimize the impact of changing the domain.

Since this domain belongs to another company, comany, I don't beleive it can be solved by MX records.

Any suggestions???

Iput is grealy appreciated.

Answer : Question about MX recorods and Email

What are you going to replace this company with?  I see a few options depending on what is available and what you are going to do.  The easiest is if your current company allows you to set up e-mail forwarding, you could just keep that company for a month or two along with your new company and have the e-mails forwarded so that your users have time to notify everyone of the e-mail change.  Also you could add signatures to everyone's e-mail that point out the e-mail change.

If you are moving to your own server, like exchange, or something, then you could set up your own server to pull down that alpha.net mail via pop3 or imap and forward it to your users mailboxes, again keeping the alpha.net company for a couple months.

Like xph1le said your probably not going to be able to do much with mx records since you don't own the domain, also I don't think there would be a whole lot you could do even if you did have access to the mx records.