1 Oct
2010
1 Oct
'10
1:58 p.m.
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 11:21:17AM -0700, Max B wrote:
I have a functional mail server on my new VPS.
Now I want to propagate mydomainname.com to email servers through the MX record,
so that people can find 'me(a)mydomainname.com'com'.
The domain registry has default values of 'mailstore1.secureserver.net' and
'smtp.secureserver.net'.
I would like them to point at my VPS, but am unaware of the correct strings,
which would replace 'mailstore1...' and 'smtp...' above..
Those strings could be anything you like -- it's just the name of
the machine that you want mail to be sent to. Your MX record(s) will
look something like:
mydomainname.com. MX 5 hermes.mydomainname.com.
i.e. "mail for mydomainname.com should go to
hermes.mydomainname.com, with priority 5" (larger priority values are
less important).
You then need an ordinary A record for hermes.mydomainname.com that
gives its IP address:
hermes.mydomainname.com. A 10.0.0.1
This IP address should accept incoming SMTP mail on port 25.
I'm using "hermes" here only as an example. You can use any name
you like ("smtp", "mail" and "hermes" are common ones).
Hugo.
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