Re: urgent Mail Server

2003-04-04 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 09:47:05AM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: > Hmm, I'm curious: did you run TMDA locally, or are you saying someone > else running TMDA couldn't email you? (I'm talking about the TMDA > found at http://tmda.net/ ) Neither. I'm s

Re: urgent Mail Server

2003-04-03 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 10:43:04PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 12:26:37PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: > > Please read section 5 of rfc 2821. > > > > "If no MX records are found, but an A RR is found, the A RR is > > treated as if it was associated with an implicit MX

Re: urgent Mail Server

2003-04-02 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 12:26:37PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: > Please read section 5 of rfc 2821. > > "If no MX records are found, but an A RR is found, the A RR is > treated as if it was associated with an implicit MX RR, with a > preference

Re: urgent Mail Server

2003-04-02 Thread ronin2
On Wed, 2 Apr 2003 12:26:37 -0600 Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please read section 5 of rfc 2821. > > "If no MX records are found, but an A RR is found, the A RR is > treated as if it was associated with an implicit MX RR, with a > preference of 0, pointing to that host." >

Re: urgent Mail Server

2003-04-02 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 09:18:50AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, 2 Apr 2003 01:31:02 -0800 > Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I guess this message is some sort of demented halucination. I have > > never had an MX record...yet I still get the list. I also haven't had > >

Re: urgent Mail Server

2003-04-02 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 09:09:07AM -0600, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote: > Quoting Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > [snip] > > An MX is only needed if some other system is going to be handling the > > mail bound for that one. > > > > You can get away with this most of the time. However, the RFCs do

Re: urgent Mail Server

2003-04-02 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-04-02T14:18:50Z, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > He didn't say the person with the mail server needed an MX record, he said > that "somewhere out there on the internet there is a nameserver for your > domain name with MX records that point at your mail server." Not necessarily true: [EMA

Re: urgent Mail Server

2003-04-02 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 09:18:50AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > He didn't say the person with the mail server needed an MX record, he > said that "somewhere out there on the internet there is a nameserver for > your domain name with MX records tha

Re: urgent Mail Server

2003-04-02 Thread Jeffrey L. Taylor
Quoting Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: [snip] > An MX is only needed if some other system is going to be handling the > mail bound for that one. > You can get away with this most of the time. However, the RFCs do require that you have an MX record and some mail servers are setup to not accept

Re: urgent Mail Server

2003-04-02 Thread ronin2
On Wed, 2 Apr 2003 01:31:02 -0800 Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I guess this message is some sort of demented halucination. I have > never had an MX record...yet I still get the list. I also haven't had He didn't say the person with the mail server needed an MX record, he said that

Re: urgent Mail Server

2003-04-02 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 07:23:27AM +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: > mail to direct them at your mail server. This requires that somewhere out > there on the internet there is a nameserver for your domain name with MX > records that point at your mail s

Re: urgent Mail Server

2003-04-01 Thread Will Yardley
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Lindsay Yardley wrote: > This morning I recieved an invoice from the isp who handles my > mail/website, he's increased his fees by 200%. This is only a hobby > thing so I can't justify spending that much for redirection & masking. > I'd like (have to) to take over t

Re: urgent Mail Server

2003-04-01 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 02 Apr 2003 12:18 am, Lindsay Yardley wrote: > G'day all, > This morning I recieved an invoice from the isp who handles my > mail/website, he's increased his fees by 200%. This is only a hobby > thing so I can't justify spending that much

RE: urgent Mail Server

2003-04-01 Thread Sharninder
> I wish I had your skill set, perhaps I could understand a little of hey ... that's the freedom u get with GNU .. use postfix if it suits you .. all the best. i don't have much knowledge about that but someone else on the list would definitely be able to help you out . Sharninder Singh National

Re: urgent Mail Server

2003-04-01 Thread Sharninder
> which is the *easiest* MTA? I would have liked to use the debian > default Exim but the docs for fools like me are rather thin, the > one I use will need to have plenty of simple and clear > documentation, remembering I know very little about administering Use exim only .. hop over to exim.org

Re: urgent Mail Server

2003-04-01 Thread Alvin Oga
On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote: > Quoting Lindsay Yardley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > G'day all, > > This morning I recieved an invoice from the isp who handles my > > mail/website, he's increased his fees by 200%. This is only a hobby > > thing so I can't justify spending that much fo

Re: urgent Mail Server

2003-04-01 Thread Jeffrey L. Taylor
Quoting Lindsay Yardley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > G'day all, > This morning I recieved an invoice from the isp who handles my > mail/website, he's increased his fees by 200%. This is only a hobby > thing so I can't justify spending that much for redirection & masking. > I'd like (have to) to take over