[plug] email hosting

[Russ Powers]

On Tue, 3 Aug 2004 09:59 am, Cameron Patrick wrote:
> Russ Powers wrote:
> > I guess this is where I'm getting confused. Where is the MX record
> > kept?
>
> In the DNS for your domain.  You'll have to ask the people hosting
> your DNS to add an appropriate MX record.  (Sometimes, e.g. in the
> case of the people hosting patrick.wattle.id.au, it's possible to do
> it over the web.)  MX records need to point to another hostname, so
> you'll probably have to make an A record with your IP address in it
> and point the MX record to that.

Ther is a "zone management" page. I can go in and add records.

>
> > >  - you need to tell exim that it is the final delivery point for mail
> > > in your domain.
> >
> > I believe I've already done that. But I can't test it since netregistry
> > is currently handling my email for that domain and has an MX record for
> > it(one month free with the domain purchase).
>
> Do something like this: (hopefully it should be evident when you try
> it what stuff you're supposed to type and what stuff is the output)
>
> $ telnet localhost smtp
> Trying 127.0.0.1...
<snip>
>> test 

That works. 

Ummm, as you probably already know since I just cut and paste the above. Sorry 
about sending you "spam."  :)

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Regards,
Russ