John T. Haggerty: > > I have the following issue (seems to be common although my details seem to > differ): > > 1. I recently registered a new domain as WWW.whatever.org or whatever.
Please use example.com when you do not want to disclose your real domain
name. The domain whatever.org does not belong to you.
> 6. In the core wiki for Postfix I have the MX record of my server updated
> from the registrar to mail.whatever.org (pita since it's dynamic and not
> static).
You will not be happy with such a setup.
For receiving mails, you would have to update the MX record for your
domain whenever your IP address changes. And you always risk losing mail
to random strangers who happen to use any of your old IP addresses.
For sending e-mails you will notice that *a lot* of receiving systems
will refuse talking to systems on dynamic IP addresses. Also, you can
only expect to send mails from your mail server using e-mail addresses
in your own domain. If you try to deliver an e-mail with a gmail sender
address to gmail's servers, gmail will treat it as spam. The same
probably holds for most other major e-mail providers.
> 7. I want to avoid using gmail's smtp and comcast's servers since I'd love
> to host this on my own.
Then do what I do: rent a small VPS with a static IP address and run
Postfix there. You can configure Postfix to deliver mails of senders
from its own domain directly and use an appropriate relay host for
specific senders / sender domains.
> How can this be accomplished in Debian (not Ubuntu, or something else)? (I
> get irritated at Ubuntu specific explanations {which usually don't work}
> getting all the search results)
>
> Any help would be appreciated as I spent ~3 days of work and wiping the
> entire OS in case I went wrong somewhere.
There's really no better way than spending even more time (and some
money). Read the Postfix documentation. Postfix will not do what you
want it to do unless you understats its configuration files.
http://www.postfix.org/BASIC_CONFIGURATION_README.html
http://www.postfix.org/STANDARD_CONFIGURATION_README.html
http://www.postfix.org/SMTPD_ACCESS_README.html
http://www.postfix.org/SASL_README.html
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J.
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