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Registering mail server
Hi All,
how can make my mailserver availble publicly. I configured squirrelmail on linux. I have a public IP. please tell me how i have to register my mailserver. Do i need to configure DNS on my system.
Thanx,
Gopi
how can make my mailserver availble publicly. I configured squirrelmail on linux. I have a public IP. please tell me how i have to register my mailserver. Do i need to configure DNS on my system.
Thanx,
Gopi
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Hi Peter,
Pl. tell me where i have to configure my A and MX records. How i have to set up my mail server as mail.mydomain.com.
Thanx,
Gopi.
Pl. tell me where i have to configure my A and MX records. How i have to set up my mail server as mail.mydomain.com.
Thanx,
Gopi.
this would depend on what dns server you are using. i would reccomend using DynDNS or your ISP's dns servers, as unless you really know what you are doing setting up your own internal DNS can be a bit of a pig.
you would also need to get your domain name forwarded to your DNS servers, and unless they are online 24 x 7, this could cause mail delivery problems, as the remote mail server would not be able to resolve an IP address for your MX.
if you use external DNS, the remote mail server will still be able to resolve an IP, and if your machine is offline, then the message will be put into a retry queue, as oposed to beinng returned to sender.
hope this helps!
you would also need to get your domain name forwarded to your DNS servers, and unless they are online 24 x 7, this could cause mail delivery problems, as the remote mail server would not be able to resolve an IP address for your MX.
if you use external DNS, the remote mail server will still be able to resolve an IP, and if your machine is offline, then the message will be put into a retry queue, as oposed to beinng returned to sender.
hope this helps!
He suggetions are correct, but I would like to add one...
If you only have one IP address You might want to consider using a service like DynDNS http://www.dyndns.org/ Which many people use when they want DNS service.
Marakush