Re: Mail server without MX record

2020-10-16 Thread john
Someone mentioned earlier that the OP (Jason Long) might be a bot. While I personally don't think this is the case, I do think we might be getting trolled... A quick Google search shows that this same username\email is on several different sites recently asking similar questions for a variety

Re: Mail server without MX record.

2020-10-16 Thread Jason Long
Thank you. I got my answer with your text. On Friday, October 16, 2020, 02:19:20 PM GMT+3:30, Jaroslaw Rafa wrote: Dnia 16.10.2020 o godz. 08:02:30 Jason Long pisze: > Thank you. > Thus, in Postfix or Dovecot configuration file I can't change the standard > record? We already wrot

Re: Mail server without MX record.

2020-10-16 Thread Richard
> Date: Friday, October 16, 2020 08:02:30 + > From: Jason Long >> On Friday, October 16, 2020, 01:13:45 AM GMT+3:30, Richard >> wrote: >> >> >>> Date: Thursday, October 15, 2020 18:57:29 + >>> From: Jason Long >>> >>> If the DNS administrator give me an A record then can I sending

Re: Mail server without MX record.

2020-10-16 Thread Jaroslaw Rafa
Dnia 16.10.2020 o godz. 08:02:30 Jason Long pisze: > Thank you. > Thus, in Postfix or Dovecot configuration file I can't change the standard > record? We already wrote you a few times, that DNS configuration (A/MX record) has NOTHING TO DO with Postfix or Dovecot configuration. NOTHING. These are

Re: Mail server without MX record.

2020-10-16 Thread Bernardo Reino
On Fri, 16 Oct 2020, Jason Long wrote: Thank you. Thus, in Postfix or Dovecot configuration file I can't change the standard record? You a bot or something? I think GPT-3 can understand more than you appear to do. Good luck.

Re: Mail server without MX record.

2020-10-16 Thread Jason Long
Thank you. Thus, in Postfix or Dovecot configuration file I can't change the standard record? On Friday, October 16, 2020, 01:13:45 AM GMT+3:30, Richard wrote: > Date: Thursday, October 15, 2020 18:57:29 + > From: Jason Long > > If the DNS administrator give me an A record the

Re: Mail server without MX record.

2020-10-15 Thread Richard
> Date: Thursday, October 15, 2020 18:57:29 + > From: Jason Long > > If the DNS administrator give me an A record then can I sending and > receiving emails from the Internet by the current configuration? > Assuming no MX, if an A-record is set up to point to a machine (properly configure

Re: Mail server without MX record.

2020-10-15 Thread Jason Long
Thank you. If the DNS administrator give me an A record then can I sending and receiving emails from the Internet by the current configuration? On Thursday, October 15, 2020, 08:49:36 PM GMT+3:30, Wietse Venema wrote: Jason Long: > Thank you, but I never got my answer.1- Postfix or D

Re: Mail server without MX record.

2020-10-15 Thread Wietse Venema
Jason Long: > Thank you, but I never got my answer.1- Postfix or Dovecot has any > option about changing default record that a mail server using?2- > Could A record offer MX record in my goal? An SMTP server cannnot tell remote systems what TCP port they should connect to, or what DNS record they

Re: Mail server without MX record.

2020-10-15 Thread Jason Long
Thank you, but I never got my answer.1- Postfix or Dovecot has any option about changing default record that a mail server using?2- Could A record offer MX record in my goal? On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 10:09 PM, Wietse Venema wrote: Jaroslaw Rafa: > Dnia 14.10.2020 o godz. 13:38:12 Wietse V

Re: Mail server without MX record.

2020-10-14 Thread Ron Wheeler
There were a lot of answers given but the questions showed that the person asking the questions did not have the background in DNS and SMTP to take advantage of the answers and needed to take a bit of time with books or Google to develop enough understanding to know what to ask and how to inter

Re: Mail server without MX record.

2020-10-14 Thread Wietse Venema
Jaroslaw Rafa: > Dnia 14.10.2020 o godz. 13:38:12 Wietse Venema pisze: > > Here's some email basics. > > > > 1) You arrange for an MX and/or A record in your DNS zone. You edit > > the zone file yourself, or you use some provider's application to > > edit their zone file. > > > > example.com

Re: Mail server without MX record.

2020-10-14 Thread Jaroslaw Rafa
Dnia 14.10.2020 o godz. 13:38:12 Wietse Venema pisze: > Here's some email basics. > > 1) You arrange for an MX and/or A record in your DNS zone. You edit > the zone file yourself, or you use some provider's application to > edit their zone file. > > exammple.com10 IN MX mail.exampl

Re: Mail server without MX record.

2020-10-14 Thread Jaroslaw Rafa
Dnia 14.10.2020 o godz. 17:03:05 Jason Long pisze: > Thus with "https://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/postfix"; tutorial I'm on a right > track and Postfix doen't have any specific options about the selecting > record? The Postfix server configured properly and the record option is > not related to it? M

Re: Mail server without MX record.

2020-10-14 Thread Wietse Venema
Jason Long: > Thank you Kris. > Thus with "https://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/postfix"; tutorial I'm > on a right track and Postfix doen't have any specific options about > the selecting record? The Postfix server configured properly and > the record option is not related to it? Here's some email basi

Re: Mail server without MX record.

2020-10-14 Thread Jason Long
Thank you Kris. Thus with "https://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/postfix"; tutorial I'm on a right track and Postfix doen't have any specific options about the selecting record? The Postfix server configured properly and the record option is not related to it? On Wednesday, October 14, 2020, 06:

Re: Mail server without MX record.

2020-10-14 Thread Ron Wheeler
Have you tried Google? You can likely find whole tutorials answering both your questions. Ron On 2020-10-14 3:04 a.m., Jason Long wrote: Thank you. Can you tell me how can I setup my Postfix server with A record Or how can I change the DNS server two support two MX records? On Tuesday, O

Re: Mail server without MX record.

2020-10-14 Thread Kris Deugau
Jason Long wrote: Thank you. Can you tell me how can I setup my Postfix server with A record You just add an A record with a suitable name for your server. There's nothing Postfix-specific about this. Or how can I change the DNS server two support two MX records? I'm not aware of any DNS

Re: Mail server without MX record.

2020-10-14 Thread vi...@vheuser.com
But it helps to know what bait is before you buy a fishing boat. ~v On 2020/10/14 10:00 AM, Wietse Venema wrote: Jason Long: It is so odd that some people here don't like to answer to the users questions and forwarding them to read a book with 496 pages. Indeed, postfix-users is not a cargo-c

Re: Mail server without MX record.

2020-10-14 Thread Wietse Venema
Jason Long: > It is so odd that some people here don't like to answer to the > users questions and forwarding them to read a book with 496 pages. Indeed, postfix-users is not a cargo-cult recipe factory. Teach a man to fish, and they can feed themselves. Wietse

Re: Mail server without MX record.

2020-10-14 Thread Jason Long
It is so odd that some people here don't like to answer to the users questions and forwarding them to read a book with 496 pages. On Wednesday, October 14, 2020, 10:42:08 AM GMT+3:30, Viktor Dukhovni wrote: On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 07:04:25AM +, Jason Long wrote: > Can you tell

Re: Mail server without MX record.

2020-10-14 Thread Viktor Dukhovni
On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 07:04:25AM +, Jason Long wrote: > Can you tell me how can I setup my Postfix server with A record Or how > can I change the DNS server two support two MX records? The gap between what your questions suggest you know, and what you need to know to operate a mailserver is

Re: Mail server without MX record.

2020-10-14 Thread Jason Long
Thank you. Can you tell me how can I setup my Postfix server with A record Or how can I change the DNS server two support two MX records? On Tuesday, October 13, 2020, 11:09:22 PM GMT+3:30, IL Ka wrote: >1- Each domain can have a MX record? If you want to receive email for this domai

Re: Mail server without MX record.

2020-10-13 Thread Dirk Stöcker
On Tue, 13 Oct 2020, Fred Morris wrote: Perfect, thanks! billmail.scconsult.com is not delegated from scconsult.com (has no SOA or NS), and sccconsult.com is delegated from .com (of course), with SOA and NS. Bonus points: billmail has SPF. Same concept, but a bit different (also has SPF, DA

Re: Mail server without MX record.

2020-10-13 Thread Fred Morris
On Tue, 13 Oct 2020, Bill Cole wrote: On 13 Oct 2020, at 15:02, Fred Morris wrote: Hello. Real example of someone with this setup, and all records for the FQDNs in question, or it didn't happen. Waving at Fred... billmail.scconsult.com. 10800 IN MX 0 clues.scconsult.com. billma

Re: Mail server without MX record.

2020-10-13 Thread Bill Cole
On 13 Oct 2020, at 15:02, Fred Morris wrote: Hello. Real example of someone with this setup, and all records for the FQDNs in question, or it didn't happen. Waving at Fred... billmail.scconsult.com. 10800 IN MX 0 clues.scconsult.com. billmail.scconsult.com. 10800 IN MX

Re: Mail server without MX record.

2020-10-13 Thread Ron Wheeler
You want an MX record. Why would you not want an MX record? What is the downside? Where is your dns? On 2020-10-13 11:04 a.m., Jason Long wrote: I have an Internet domain name and a Linux server and I want to have an email server for send and receive emails. For example, if my domain is "exa

Re: Mail server without MX record.

2020-10-13 Thread IL Ka
>1- Each domain can have a MX record? If you want to receive email for this domain then yes, you should have an MX record for it. Without it "A" record will be used, but it is better to have MX. >2- If a company need multi MX record then it must have multi DNS server too? You can have multiple M

Re: Mail server without MX record.

2020-10-13 Thread Jason Long
I'm really thankful for all information and help.Excuse me, I have some questions and I'm thankful if anyone answer to them by number:1- Each domain can have a MX record?2- If a company need multi MX record then it must have multi DNS server too?3- Other methods like forwarding need MX record to

Re: Mail server without MX record.

2020-10-13 Thread Fred Morris
Hello. Real example of someone with this setup, and all records for the FQDNs in question, or it didn't happen. On Tue, 13 Oct 2020, @lbutlr wrote: On 13 Oct 2020, at 12:03, Fred Morris wrote: Notwithstanding, any "fully qualified domain name" (FQDN) can have email sent to it; typically only

Re: Mail server without MX record.

2020-10-13 Thread @lbutlr
On 13 Oct 2020, at 12:03, Fred Morris wrote: > Notwithstanding, any "fully qualified domain name" (FQDN) can have email sent > to it; typically only the FQDN immediately below the zone cut, and also the > subject of SOA and NS records, has MX records. Pretty sure it is prefect fine to have diff

Re: Mail server without MX record.

2020-10-13 Thread Fred Morris
considerations. On Tue, 13 Oct 2020, IL Ka wrote: Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2020 19:06:05 +0300 From: IL Ka To: Jason Long Cc: Postfix users , "@lbutlr" Subject: Re: Mail server without MX record. DNS server have another MX record for other mail server. Then all mail to your domain will g

Re: Mail server without MX record.

2020-10-13 Thread Chris Green
On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 04:42:31PM +, Richard wrote: > > > > Date: Tuesday, October 13, 2020 15:52:41 + > > From: Jason Long > > > > I can't have MX record because the DNS server have another MX > > record for other mail server. I'm thankful if anyone tell me how > > can I solve my probl

Re: Mail server without MX record.

2020-10-13 Thread Richard
> Date: Tuesday, October 13, 2020 15:52:41 + > From: Jason Long > > I can't have MX record because the DNS server have another MX > record for other mail server. I'm thankful if anyone tell me how > can I solve my problem without MX record. Is t possible with A > record? Either you misstat

Re: Mail server without MX record.

2020-10-13 Thread IL Ka
> DNS server have another MX record for other mail server. Then all mail to your domain will go to that mail server. No way to change it. This is how SMTP works: If one or more MX RRs are found for a given name, SMTP systems MUST NOT utilize any A RRs https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2821#section

Re: Mail server without MX record.

2020-10-13 Thread Jason Long
I can't have MX record because the DNS server have another MX record for other mail server. I'm thankful if anyone tell me how can I solve my problem without MX record. Is t possible with A record? On Tuesday, October 13, 2020, 07:19:56 PM GMT+3:30, @lbutlr wrote: On 13 Oct 2020, at

Re: Mail server without MX record.

2020-10-13 Thread @lbutlr
On 13 Oct 2020, at 09:45, Bernardo Reino wrote: > On Tue, 13 Oct 2020, Jason Long wrote: > >> I have an Internet domain name and a Linux server and I want to have an >> email server for send and receive emails. For example, if my domain is >> "example.net" then I want to have a "i...@example.ne

Re: Mail server without MX record.

2020-10-13 Thread Bernardo Reino
On Tue, 13 Oct 2020, Jason Long wrote: I have an Internet domain name and a Linux server and I want to have an email server for send and receive emails. For example, if my domain is "example.net" then I want to have a "i...@example.net" address for send and receive emails from the Internet.

Re: Mail server without MX record.

2020-10-13 Thread Jason Long
I have an Internet domain name and a Linux server and I want to have an email server for send and receive emails. For example, if my domain is "example.net" then I want to have a "i...@example.net" address for send and receive emails from the Internet. On Tuesday, October 13, 2020, 06:09

Re: Mail server without MX record.

2020-10-13 Thread IL Ka
What are you trying to achieve? There are alot of scenarios where Postfix may be used: * "Send only" email server for your website (to give your website ability to send emails). You never receive any emails from the outside. * Forward only: it just accepts mails from your apps, and sends them via

Re: Mail server without MX record.

2020-10-13 Thread Jason Long
Thank you for all of your messages. With that tutorial, which record or port is needed?  On Tuesday, October 13, 2020, 04:31:34 PM GMT+3:30, Wietse Venema wrote: Jason Long: > Hello, > Can I use Postfix without MX record? I installed Postfix and?Dovecot > via "https://wiki.centos.org

Re: Mail server without MX record.

2020-10-13 Thread Bill Cole
On 13 Oct 2020, at 8:09, Jason Long wrote: Hello, Can I use Postfix without MX record? I installed Postfix and Dovecot via "https://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/postfix"; tutorial and I want to know can I use it without MX record? That is entirely dependent on what you intend to use Postfix for.

Re: Mail server without MX record.

2020-10-13 Thread Wietse Venema
Jason Long: > Hello, > Can I use Postfix without MX record? I installed Postfix and?Dovecot > via "https://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/postfix"; tutorial and I want > to know can I use it without MX record? The SMTP standard (RFC 2821) does not *require* MX records. Some uninformed mail operators may r

Re: Mail server without MX record.

2020-10-13 Thread Richard
> Date: Tuesday, October 13, 2020 12:09:28 + > From: Jason Long > > Hello, > Can I use Postfix without MX record? I installed Postfix > and Dovecot via "https://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/postfix"; tutorial > and I want to know can I use it without MX record? Yes. Some mail sites, incorrectly,

Re: Mail server without MX record.

2020-10-13 Thread A. Schulze
Am 13.10.20 um 14:09 schrieb Jason Long: > I want to know can I use it without MX record? A records are used by default if no MX is available That's nothing postfix specific - it's an RFC requirement for any MTA Andreas