Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 11:52:49 +0400 From: Rino Mardo <helixfish@gmx.net> To: "T.K C.Chua" <chewchua@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mailserver Message-ID: <20001123115249.A17169@gmx.net> In-Reply-To: <F34xjnzi95HfqR77bie00002a7c@hotmail.com>; from chewchua@hotmail.com on Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 03:22:47PM %2B0800 References: <F34xjnzi95HfqR77bie00002a7c@hotmail.com>
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best is get the cricket book called "DNS and BIND" from amazon.com or your local bookstore. mx record is a pointer to the ipaddress of your mail server. your problem is you have to tell your isp to point it to your mailserver. it's a DNS thang. On Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 03:22:47PM +0800 or thereabouts, T.K C.Chua wrote: > Hi, > I need some help here. > When my company setup a webserver using FreeBSD as the O/S, they didn't > setup the mailserver, hence the mail was point to the ISP UUCP, now the > company wish to point it to our company server. > The problem here is: > 1. I'm not quite clear the mailserver is setup or not at server, > so, how do I check? > 2. If the mailserver is ok, what should do? > 3. What is mx-record? > > I'm new in FreeBSD but getting alot document to help me out. > > Thanks. > > > chua. > > _____________________________________________________________________________________ > Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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