On Mon December 14 2009, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > From previous posts, I thought you already had an internet mail server > running at a colo facility, or a VPS server running an internet mail > server, and thus the basic prerequisite experience to setup another > internet mail server. Now, from you statement above, it is clear you > have no idea what an "MX record" is or where/how to implement it...
I asked my ISP, and the response I got tells me they can take care of all the MX records, and those kinds of things. Yet, I agree, there is lots more to it. Not the smallest of which is S P @ M containment. Going from a hosting service that has all the background & utilities in place, to my own server that has... nothing. >You _must_ read up on the basics of internet mail server configuration >before you continue this journey of yours. By this I don't mean read >the docs for Postfix or Sendmail or Exim. By this I mean you need to >read about the architecture of internet smtp mail. The RFCs are a >difficult read, and parts of them are out of date. I suggest you find a >layman's guide to internet mail architecture. There are many available >via Google et al. WHich RFC's, SMTP, POP3, IMAP? -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800 Registered Ubuntu User #12459 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
