1 Oct
2010
1 Oct
'10
4:26 p.m.
Hello,
On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 05:21:14PM +0100, Andy Bennett wrote:
you can insert the IP address of your VPS as the
target of the MX
record and then mail should start getting delivered to port 25 on
that machine.
MX records expect a hostname on the right hand side. Entering an IP
address would usually result in it expecting a host called
"1.2.3.4.example.com" if you tried "1.2.3.4" as the IP in the zone
file for "example.com".
So don't do that.
Cheers,
Andy
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