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From: Dave Sill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: PLUG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Qmail Mailing List
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, June 14, 1999 7:16 AM
Subject: Re: Qmail, retrieveing POP3 and delivering
: "Steven Klass" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: >
: > Hey I finally have qmail set up, and it was much easier the 100th or
so
: >time:-) Seriously, this was about the third attempt (relatively new to
: >Linux) and things finally started to show some improvement. It's
critical
: >to read the doc's and if you don't understand re-read..
:
: That's good advice, the re-read part.
:
: > Anyway I have a couple of questions. I am connected to my ISP
: >(Speedchoice) via Ethernet. Does anyone know if I can monitor port 25
(SMTP)
: >for mail. My schooling on this involves reading the net3 how-to, so go
easy
: >on me. I would think that if I have a "permanent" connection to my ISP
that
: >I should be able to monitor my host name (Static IP) and that should
: >be it?
:
: If:
:
: 1. you have a static IP address (you do), and
: 2. there is no MX record for your system pointing to your ISP's
: mail hub (I can't tell), and
Please help me out on this one, what is an MX record.. I thought you might
lead me to this, would you mind explaining this a little bit or pointing me
to the faq.
: 3. you have qmail-smtpd configured properly on your system via
: inetd or tcpserver, (part of the normal qmail installation
: process) then:
:
: You should be able to receive mail on your system directly via SMTP.
:
: -Dave
:
