[Gllug] FQDN for local mail relay?

Garry Heaton garry at heaton6.freeserve.co.uk
Tue Dec 19 01:54:14 UTC 2006


Chris Bell wrote:
> I am typing this on riscpc.localdomain and my mailserver is sitting on 
> the same local network, but there is a local DNS A record pointer to it
> as postman.mydomain (see the header on this email), it is configured as 
> postman.mydomain and it re-writes the "From: " header and gives the
> correct "helo" response. It also has an alias as postman.localdomain so
> that everything else just knows it as "postman".
> 
> 

There is no local DNS on this machine but I have access to the DNS config
panel for the domain at BT. Don't know if that would make any difference. Do
you suggest an additional A record for 'robinsonengineers.co.uk' on BT's DNS?

Garry
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