From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 23 17:15:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.webmailer.de (natmail2.webmailer.de [192.67.198.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2256B37B4C5 for ; Thu, 23 Nov 2000 17:15:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.localdom (p3E9E1598.dip.t-dialin.net [62.158.21.152]) by post.webmailer.de (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id CAA13933; Fri, 24 Nov 2000 02:15:13 +0100 (MET) Received: from masterpc (master [192.168.0.1]) by localhost.localdom (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id eAO0DV341387; Fri, 24 Nov 2000 01:13:31 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 01:13:38 -0800 From: Boris X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.46d) Personal Reply-To: Boris X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <9516316251.20001124011338@x-itec.de> To: "T.K C.Chua" Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mailserver In-reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello T.K, Wednesday, November 22, 2000, 11:22:47 PM, you wrote: TKCC> 1. I'm not quite clear the mailserver is setup or not at server, TKCC> so, how do I check? Telnet on port 25 of the server or port 109/110 if there is no reply, no mailserver is enabled TKCC> 3. What is mx-record? A mx-record is an entry in a dns server. If i want to send mail to www.domain.com for example, we need to know where to send the mail to this domain, so we are looking at the mx-record to see where to send to (internally). TKCC> I'm new in FreeBSD but getting alot document to help me out. Maybe you should buy some books about DNS and Sendmail as well as some books about routing. -- Best regards, Boris mailto:koester@x-itec.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message