From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 19 12: 5:16 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.qcislands.net (mail.qcislands.net [209.53.238.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 144CF15183 for ; Thu, 19 Aug 1999 12:05:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ccstore@qcislands.net) Received: from wwwa ([209.53.238.8] helo=wwwa.qcislands.net) by mail.qcislands.net with esmtp (Exim 3.03 #1) id 11HXUg-0002Cm-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 19 Aug 1999 12:04:58 -0700 Received: from ccstore by wwwa.qcislands.net with local (Exim 3.01 #3) id 11HXUg-0003AT-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 19 Aug 1999 19:04:58 +0000 From: Jim Pazarena To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: setting up mail server X-Mailer: SCO Shell Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 12:07:53 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <9908191207.aa08657@dick.ccstores.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG If you are creating a (FreeBSD) mail server on the net, is it 'required' to utilize an IP for an address named "smtp.XX.XX" ? I've got the machine's REAL name, and a second IP for "mail.XX.XX". It seems to me that if my DNS always points at "MX mail.XX.XX", then "smtp." doesn't enter the picture but I don't want to miss something. The reason I ask is a few years ago I hired a consultant to set up my original email and he created both mail & smtp... I've always left it as such but never understood why. BTW, my customers point at "mail.XX.XX" for both POP & smtp services. -- Jim Pazarena mailto:paz@ccstores.com http://www.qcislands.net/paz To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message