From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 7 19:42: 9 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18FAC14DEC for ; Sun, 7 Mar 1999 19:42:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) id WAA21534; Sun, 7 Mar 1999 22:51:04 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cjc) From: "Crist J. Clark" Message-Id: <199903080351.WAA21534@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Subject: Re: adding a mail server In-Reply-To: <36E24EA3.DF574706@gte.net> from "Donald P. Dahlman" at "Mar 7, 99 10:02:11 am" To: dahlmand@gte.net (Donald P. Dahlman) Date: Sun, 7 Mar 1999 22:51:04 -0500 (EST) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: cjclark@home.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] 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 Donald P. Dahlman wrote, > I am setting up a seperate mail server. I have a box running domain > and sendmail. > I want to use my second machine for email only. No domain sevice. > here are the two machines: > > box1.mydomain.com > box2.mydomain.com > what items do I need to configure to send and recieve mail on box2 using > > the same domain name as box1? can I even do this without using aliases? > Is all I have to do is edit the MX records on box1? You have provided very little detail, but unless you are neglecting to mention anything important, all you need to do is put a MX record on the DNS machine(s) and set up the new box to understand it accepts mail for the domain (use a cw-file or something equivalent). Directing mail to the server with the MX record is the easy part. Making sure the server does the right things with the mail it gets is the tricky part. I'm not sure what you mean by 'aliases.' -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message