Requesting assistance with mailserver setup..

Kevin Darcy kcd at daimlerchrysler.com
Fri Feb 9 00:13:29 UTC 2001


Yes, in addition to pointing your MX record, you also need to tell
mail.mccormickweb.net that it should accept mail for @mccormickweb.net. This
is a fairly common sendmail configuration (usually just add to the Cw class or
the sendmail.cw file if you're configured to use one).


- Kevin

Matt McCormick wrote:

> I meant addresses like foo at mccormickweb.net.  It's kind of working, but in
> the zone config I have mailserver as mail.mccormickweb.net, and users can
> only send mail to foo at mail.mccormickweb.net, rather than
> foo at mccormickweb.net.  I've come to the conclusion that I should probably
> make a trip to Borders for a Bind and Sendmail reference.........Now that
> I've posted the actual server address here, I should probably think about
> security as well :-)
>
> Thanks for the assistance.
>
> -Matt
>
> "Kevin Darcy" <kcd at daimlerchrysler.com> wrote in message
> news:95t0cj$gtu at pub3.rc.vix.com...
> >
> > When you say you would "like to create some e-mail addresses in the
> domain",
> > what exactly do you mean? Do you mean email *subdomains*, e.g.
> > foo.mccormickweb.net and bar.mccormickweb.net? In that case, try
> >
> > foo mx 0 mail
> > bar mx 0 mail
> >
> > (Or point the MX records to any mail server you wish).
> >
> > Or, did you mean addresses like foo at mccormickweb.net and
> bar at mccormickweb.net?
> > That has nothing to do with DNS. That's a matter of local mail server
> > configuration.
> >
> >
> > - Kevin
> >
> > Matt McCormick wrote:
> >
> > > I could buy a book, but there are so many smart people here :-)
> > >
> > > I recently registered a domain 'mccormickweb.net', and changed
> nameserver to
> > > my linux box. I configured named.conf correctly, I think, so that I can
> now
> > > access www. and ns. from the internet.  Now I'd like to create some
> e-mail
> > > addresses in the domain, but I'm having trouble.  Here's the zone file,
> any
> > > suggestions?:
> > >
> > > @ IN SOA ns.mccormickweb.net. matt.mccormickweb.net. (
> > >
> > >     3 ; Serial
> > >
> > >     8H ; Refresh
> > >
> > >     2H ; Retry
> > >
> > >     2W ; Expire
> > >
> > >     1D ) ; Minimum
> > >
> > >  NS ns
> > >
> > > MX 10 mail.mccormickweb.net.
> > >
> > > localhost A 127.0.0.1
> > >
> > > mail A 24.6.163.133
> > >
> > > ns A 24.6.163.133
> > >
> > > www A 24.6.163.133
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >





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