From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 19 12:24:32 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns.clientlogic.com (ns.clientlogic.com [207.51.66.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0240714F1F for ; Thu, 19 Aug 1999 12:24:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ChrisMic@clientlogic.com) Received: by site0s1 with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) id ; Thu, 19 Aug 1999 15:23:49 -0400 Message-ID: <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB4401105BB1@site2s1> From: Christopher Michaels To: 'Jim Pazarena' , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: setting up mail server Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 15:26:22 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It's just one of those common practices that people perform, there's almost always an alias 'smtp.domain.org' to the actual mail server. It is not explicitly "required"! -Chris > -----Original Message----- > From: Jim Pazarena [SMTP:paz@ccstores.com] > Sent: Thursday, August 19, 1999 3:08 PM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: setting up mail server > > 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