My understanding of the RFC is that the "mail.mydomain.com" record should not be a CNAME. It should be an 'A' record. But, I think James supports the CNAME. At least this is what I recall Noel telling me when I questioned this.
bp -----Original Message----- From: bbrewer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2004 11:46 AM To: James Users List Subject: Re: Basic JAMES questions Two questions for you: 1) Do you have a domain name server? 2) Are you running your mail server (James) on 63.198.128.215? If the answer is yes to both - 1. Setting aside the domain question, now that I've set up James, how do I address the incoming mail server. Would it be mail.kingdomrpg.com? You'll need to set this up in the zone record on your domain server. Fot this you need at least the following three entries: An "A" record (maps the ip to the domain name) on your zone for the actual name of the mail server to its IP address. An "CNAME" record mapping the actual name of the mail server to mail.kingdomrpg.com. Then you need an "MX" record to map declare the mail domain name as the default mail handler for kingdomrpg.com This is an example of a zone record for Bind using your info. _________________________________________________________ $ORIGIN kingdomprg.com $TTL 86400 @ IN SOA [dns server name goes here].kingdomrpg.com. hostmaster.kingdomrpg.com. ( 2001062501 ; serial 21600 ; refresh after 6 hours 3600 ; retry after 1 hour 604800 ; expire after 1 week 86400 ) ; minimum TTL of 1 day IN NS [dns server name goes here] .kingdomrpg.com. IN MX 10 mail.kingdomrpg.com. IN A 63.198.128.215 [mail server name goes here] IN A 63.198.128.215 [dns server name goes here] IN A 63.198.128.215 mail IN CNAME [mail server name goes here] ____________________________________________________ 2. Would the outgoing be pop.kingdomrpg.com, pop3.kingdomrpg.com, or smtp.kingdomrpg.com? With the above completed, you now use mail.kingdomrpg.com for both the pop and smtp entries in your mail client. 3. Now considering the domain, would the incoming and outgoing be addressed mail.[63.198.128.215]? No. If you set up an account for "tester" on the James server, you should be able to use "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". That's what the "MX" record is for - to have "mail.kingdomrpg.com" to handle all mail for "kingdomrpg.com". The "CNAME" then maps "mail.kingdomrpg.com" to whatever actual server you have James deployed on - ie, "someserver.kingdomrpg.com". The "A" record maps the servername to the IP address - ie, "someserver.kingdomrpg.com" = 63.198.128.215 4. James can "auto-detect" IPs and domains, I believe. Does that mean James will be aware when [63.198.128.215] = kingdomrpg.com, or should I manually enter this stuff? You probably want to manually enter this in case you want to run multiple domains... Good Luck! If you need help, feel free to contact me (off the forum) at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian Brewer Blake Watson wrote: Hello, James Users List! I'm setting up James to handle my domain mail. (kingdomrpg.com) I'm moving from someone else's server (HostSave) to my own, and the last missing piece is mail-server. I want to set it up and make sure it works before transferring the domain, however. So, I have a couple of very basic questions. I've set up James, and I think it works, but I realize I don't know how to address the server. I know I should be able to send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] but I don't know how to set up my e-mail client to address the POP and SMTP servers. This seems to be "everybody knows" type of info since all the help I've seen just says "Yeah, now that you've got it running you can send your mail out through it." The simplest questions: 1. Setting aside the domain question, now that I've set up James, how do I address the incoming mail server. Would it be mail.kingdomrpg.com? 2. Would the outgoing be pop.kingdomrpg.com, pop3.kingdomrpg.com, or smtp.kingdomrpg.com? 3. Now considering the domain, would the incoming and outgoing be addressed mail.[63.198.128.215]? 4. James can "auto-detect" IPs and domains, I believe. Does that mean James will be aware when [63.198.128.215] = kingdomrpg.com, or should I manually enter this stuff? Thanks for your patience! ===Blake=== --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
