[Klug-general] Mail Servers

[David Halliday]

You need to set MX records etc... in your DNS configuration:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MX_record
Your DNS provider should be able to help with this.

You can't set this up for a home machine, used to be able to but most hosts
don't accept anything from an IP address that is allocated to home use as
this is where most infected spam drones work.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MX_record>

On 17 December 2010 12:02, Peter Childs <pchilds at bcs.org> wrote:

> One used to be able to setup a Linux box to send E-Mail directly. using
> Exim, Postfix or even sendmail.
>
> I stopped doing this about 5 years ago as more and more of the mail was
> getting rejected due to the fixed ip I was using not being a "certified"
> mail server.....
>
> So what do I need to do to get the server "Certified" so that people will
> accept mail off it.
>
> I want to be able to send out quite a lot of mail more than the ISP will
> accept but its not Spam, more mailing lists and news letters to people who
> have agreed, to receive them.
>
> I think I need some kind of entry in the DNS but I've never really been
> able to make head or tail of the instructions.....
>
> Peter.
>
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