Changing MX records in named zone file

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Published on 2013-10-31T12:35:27Z Indexed on 2013/11/01 3:57 UTC
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I forgot how all this works. I have a GoDaddy account, using my own DNS and whatnot. I'm having trouble getting my email to work. They said I need to update my MX records. basically, I have the following. 184.168.30.42 is the domain's IP address, obviously.

gamengai.com.   14400   IN      NS      n1
gamengai.com.   14400   IN      NS      n2
ns1             14400   IN      A       184.168.30.42
ns2             14400   IN      A       184.168.30.42
gamengai.com.   14400   IN      A       184.168.30.42
localhost       14400   IN      A       127.0.0.1
ftp             14400   IN      A       184.168.30.42
www             14400   IN      A       184.168.30.42
mail            14400   IN      A       184.168.30.42
subdomain       14400   IN      A       184.168.30.42
gamengai.com    14400   IN      MX      10      mail

Mail doesn't work though... they say to make the following change:

0   smtp.secureserver.net
10  mailstore1.secureserver.net

So should the last line point to mailstore1.secureserver.net instead of mail in the last field? What about the other line?

I had this working at one time, but it's totally gotten away from me. It's a virtual dedicated server and their support for this stuff is pretty bad... almost as bad as my admin skills since I went the programmer route.

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