Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 23:32:12 -0600 (MDT) From: Barnacle Wes <wes@xmission.com> To: ljohnston@cyberworld.demon.co.uk (Lee Johnston) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mail Host, POP & DNS Config Message-ID: <199706270532.XAA02002@obie.softweyr.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <33B2BD13.EE398FDA@cyberworld.demon.co.uk> from "Lee Johnston" at Jun 26, 97 08:03:47 pm
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Lee Johnston queried: > [setup local tcp/ip network, got mail working, now sees:] > > I added these lines to my DNS Zone file: > > new2.whickhamcomp.ac.uk. A 192.168.1.2 > MX 10 ser.whickhamcomp.ac.uk. > new3.whickhamcomp.ac.uk A 192.168.1.3 > MX 10 ser.whickhamcomp.ac.uk. > > This worked fine, users could collect mail using POP, and send using > SMTP. The only problem was that to send mail to a user on the network I > needed to use the following format for email address: > > [user]@ser.whickhamcomp.ac.uk > > I wanted the email address to be in this format: > > [user]@whickhamcomp.ac.uk > > To do this I added this line to my DNS Zone file: > > whickhamcomp.ac.uk. IN A 192.168.1.1 > > Is this the correct way of doing this? Close. You need to enter an MX record for your domain as well: whickhamcomp.ac.uk. MX 5 ser.whickhamcomp.ac.uk. This tells the rest of DNS-world to send mail @whickhamcomp.ac.uk to the mail exchanger ser.whickhamcomp.ac.uk.
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