[YLUG] Query about MX records and setting up a new mailserver

Noah Slater nslater at bytesexual.org
Wed Nov 7 23:41:23 GMT 2007


> Would I now modify the A record of mail.foo.net to point at the IP
> address of my Linux server and then modify the MX record of foo.net to
> point to the FQDN of mail.foo.net so that I can send email to
> user at foo.net

This looks sane to me.

Note that this only applies to the SMTP server.

Your POP/IMAP/Webmail can be hosted whereever you want by configuring
Exim/Postfix to forward local mails to which internal mailserver you
require.

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