Re: Help needed for my first mail server

2011-03-16 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Stan Hoeppner wrote: Rubbish. ;) There is no technical difference between a static IP and dynamic WRT SMTP, thus one can "properly" run a mail server for both sending and receiving directly. The problem one runs into here, which is probably what you meant to say, is merely receiver policy. The

Re: Help needed for my first mail server

2011-03-15 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Andrew McGlashan put forth on 3/15/2011 8:35 PM: > Hi, > > Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> MX records are for second level domains, thus you can't us an MX record >> in this case as your system is a third level domain. The MX records in >> your case are for dyndns.org, your parent domain. > > Rubbish, y

Re: Help needed for my first mail server

2011-03-15 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi, Stan Hoeppner wrote: MX records are for second level domains, thus you can't us an MX record in this case as your system is a third level domain. The MX records in your case are for dyndns.org, your parent domain. Rubbish, you can have an MX at any level you like. What is important is th

Re: Help needed for my first mail server

2011-03-15 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Jason Hsu put forth on 3/15/2011 1:13 AM: > This is my first time ever working with a mail server. Thus, I don't know > what I'm doing, but I'm trying to learn. This is bad because you're trying to do it with DynDNS. This prevents you from being able to setup a standard internet mail host wit

Re: Help needed for my first mail server

2011-03-15 Thread Joe
On Tue, 15 Mar 2011 01:13:57 -0500 Jason Hsu wrote: > This is my first time ever working with a mail server. Thus, I don't > know what I'm doing, but I'm trying to learn. > > All I'm trying to do right now is send and receive email messages > through my free DynDNS account. Let's say it's >

Re: Help needed for my first mail server

2011-03-14 Thread Jo Galara
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > Do I need an MX hostname? There are so many unknowns that I don't know where > to begin. Yes, you need a MX hostname and reverse DNS. Set the reverse DNS hostname to the HELO hostname your SMTP server uses, as well as your MX hostname. About th