Re: [cobalt-developers] Mail Settings

[All of us here <jale@xxxxxxxxxx>]

>But you should only have ONE PTR record per IP#.  If you don't already
>have a PTR record for the IP# on which this virtual site resides, then
>you need to have one, and only one.  Personally, I recommend setting it
>to the machine's canonical hostname and domain name.

I have many for each IP, that's the idea of virtual hosting

>> Add new MX record for www.domain.xxx
>
>A new MX record FOR www.domain.xxx will allow you to get mail for
><user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>.  Is that what you're talking about?  To get mail
>addressed to <user@xxxxxxxxxx> what you need is an MX record for
>domain.xxx, pointing to ANY A record for any domain, as long as that
>domain's IP# is on the same RaQ.

Not true. Set only ONE MX record to www.domain.xxx and all mail to
domain.xxx works just fine.

>> Pop/SMTP servers in email system just have www.domain.xxx
>
>Maybe it's just your terminology, but you said an MX record "for"
>www.domain.com.  I'm guessing you mean an MX record for "domain.com"
>pointing to "www.domain.com".  As I wrote above, it doesn't matter what
>the MX record points to, as long as it's pointing to an A record for a
>domain hosted on the same system.

See above, one MX record to www and everything else works.