[plug] Slackware Mail Server

[Ben Jensz]

A mail server will look up an MX record for kite.homeip.net, and when/if 
it doesn't find one, it will then look for the A record for that 
hostname and attempt to send email to it.  That's if it's performing RFC 
compliant behaviour anyway.


/ Ben


Shannon Carver wrote:

> Correct me if I’m wrong here, but if someone was to send an email to 
> bwoods at kite.homeip.net <mailto:bwoods at kite.homeip.net>, their mail 
> server would lookup the MX of the homeip.net domain and send it there, 
> which would then be returned, as I doubt theres a bwoods account on 
> homeip.net.
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> To receive mail you need a working domain with an MX record pointing 
> to your mail server.
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> Once again, if I’m wrong here, please correct me!
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> Shannon
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