From: Nick (nickm at domain go2.ie)
Date: Fri 31 Aug 2001 - 11:28:13 IST
> This I'm sure has been asked a hundred times, but how do I get sendmail to
> work?
short answer: install postfix instead. it's much easier to configure.
> I have set up Bind 8 and I think its working except for I don't understand
> MX records, and what information they need (even though webmin is making
it
an mx record basically says: all mail for domain "foo.ie" is handled by mail
server "blah.foo.ie"
and looks something like this in pseudo-bind
foo.ie IN MX 10 blah.foo.ie
somewhere else you need to say what the ip address of blah.foo.ie is:
blah.foo.ie IN A 10.1.1.100
to see what your dns server is actually returning, use dig:
dig at domain <dns-server> <record-type> <domain-name>
eg dig at domain dns.mydomain.ie mx mydomain.ie
which will tell you where dns.mydomain.ie thinks mail for mydomain.ie should
go.
> easier) I still haven't got it right
> This is whats happening so far:
> I have three boxes, one windows box with a small mail server running and I
> watch the logs to see what goes on (called server.housenet.ste),
> Another box with Mandrake 7.1 (my client box) with sendmail and fetchmail
> and all the rest (called media.housenet.ste),
> And the third with Mandrake 7.1 with bind 8 running and sendmail (which
I'm
> trying to configure - Called tux.housenet.ste)
make sure all your machines are pointing at tux.housenet.ste for dns. this
is
configured in /etc/resolv.conf, which should contain the ip address of tux.
make sure you have A records for server, media and tux in the dns server.
make sure you have an MX record for tux.housenet.ste pointing to the
appropriate
mail server.
nick
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