No you couldn't.. first of all, if you tried to use (for example) mail.yahoo.com any mail that was supposed to go to your server would instead end up at yahoos server.
it has to be a domain that will resolve back to your IP address... if it doesn't, your out of luck. then you get servers like mandrakes list server.. that will reject any mail from servers that don't resolve back to its domain name from IP. (least I think thats how they have it setup.) still, you got it going, thats the main thing.. rgds Frank -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jordan Elver Sent: Wednesday, 27 November 2002 7:28 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Postfix Config On Tuesday 26 Nov 2002 7:36 pm, Franki wrote: > Stick with postfix, its far easier them m4's and the like... > > you might find postfix easier if you use webmin.. > > generially yes, postfix should have a domain name.. > > you may be able to get it sort of functioning without it.. but its a good > idea... > > do you have a static IP address??? if so, try doing a lookup on it, my ISP > gives all its Ip's numeric subdomains.. and they are find for a mail > server... > > when you send mail, (or try to) what is showing up in > /var/log/mail/warnings? or info, or errors > > that info will help us determine whats wrong.. > > Also, postfix in mdk9 sometimes installs wrong.. so if you don't have a > head of symlinks and lib files in > /var/spool/postfix/lib then uninstall and reinstall postfix.. > > I had that problem twice and both times manually reinstalling postfix fixed > it. > (and strangely enough, postfix gave no real outward sign that there was a > problem, it just wouldn't work properly.) > Thanks Frank. I already had a free sub domain from no-ip.com. As soon as I chaged the hostname etc for that. it worked fine :-) There is something I don't understand though. How does my ISPs receiving mail server know that the domain I supplied is legit? Could I in theory add any domain that is online? Thanks very much for your help, Cheers, Jord
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