Paul Cartwright put forth on 12/14/2009 6:11 AM: > On Mon December 14 2009, Jon Dowland wrote: >> If you run your mail on a dynamic IP you will probably find >> many sites rejecting it -- it may be listed in a PBL such as >> http://www.spamhaus.org/pbl/ (either now, or in the future). >> I'd recommend relaying your outbound email via either your >> ISPs smtp server or another one you have access to. > > so, rather than using DynDNS, if I just go to my ISP and get a static IP, > that > will get me an MX record? Am I chasing all this because I don't have a static > IP?
Paul, I think you are about to find out that there is a lot more to setting up and running an internet mail server than installing some packages on a machine and clicking "go". >From previous posts, I thought you already had an internet mail server running at a colo facility, or a VPS server running an internet mail server, and thus the basic prerequisite experience to setup another internet mail server. Now, from you statement above, it is clear you have no idea what an "MX record" is or where/how to implement it... You _must_ read up on the basics of internet mail server configuration before you continue this journey of yours. By this I don't mean read the docs for Postfix or Sendmail or Exim. By this I mean you need to read about the architecture of internet smtp mail. The RFCs are a difficult read, and parts of them are out of date. I suggest you find a layman's guide to internet mail architecture. There are many available via Google et al. -- Stan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
