From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 22 23:53: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from debbie.gmx.net (unknown [195.229.53.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A5EE37B4C5 for ; Wed, 22 Nov 2000 23:53:02 -0800 (PST) Received: (from rino@localhost) by debbie.gmx.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA17173; Thu, 23 Nov 2000 11:52:50 +0400 (GST) (envelope-from rino) Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 11:52:49 +0400 From: Rino Mardo To: "T.K C.Chua" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mailserver Message-ID: <20001123115249.A17169@gmx.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from chewchua@hotmail.com on Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 03:22:47PM +0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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