From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 19 22: 8:14 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from boom.calcasieu.com (boom.calcasieu.com [209.99.46.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E2F5150B1 for ; Thu, 19 Aug 1999 22:08:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dread@calcasieu.com) Received: from coypu.bb.calcasieu.com (coypu.bb.calcasieu.com [192.168.3.21]) by boom.calcasieu.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA05907; Fri, 20 Aug 1999 00:07:56 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <9908191207.aa08657@dick.ccstores.com> Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 00:07:54 -0500 (CDT) Organization: Calcasieu Lumber From: Don Read To: Jim Pazarena Subject: RE: setting up mail server Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 19-Aug-99 Jim Pazarena wrote: > If you are creating a (FreeBSD) mail server on the net, is it 'required' > to utilize an IP for an address named "smtp.XX.XX" ? > Nope. > I've got the machine's REAL name, and a second IP for "mail.XX.XX". It seems > to me that if my DNS always points at "MX mail.XX.XX", then "smtp." doesn't > enter the picture but I don't want to miss something. > that'll be fine. Be sure to use an 'A' record for mail (| mx | smtp | whatever) no 'CNAME' target allowed. > The reason I ask is a few years ago I hired a consultant to set up my > original email and he created both mail & smtp... I've always left it > as such but never understood why. prolly thinking forward to in-bound & out-bound servers. ( but just a guess on my part.) Regards, --- Don Read dread@calcasieu.com EDP Manager dread@texas.net Calcasieu Lumber Co. Austin TX -- But I'm in good company, sendmail has kicked a great many butts in the past To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message