[plug] Slackware Mail Server

[Shannon Carver]

Ahh, theres my understanding of a situation... Wrong.. As usual :P

Cheers

-----Original Message-----
From: plug-bounces at plug.org.au [mailto:plug-bounces at plug.org.au] On
Behalf Of Ben Jensz
Sent: Monday, 12 December 2005 3:24 PM
To: plug at plug.org.au
Subject: Re: [plug] Slackware Mail Server

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.
>
>  
>
> To receive mail you need a working domain with an MX record pointing 
> to your mail server.
>
>  
>
> Once again, if I'm wrong here, please correct me!
>
>  
>
> Shannon
>

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