Re: [cobalt-users] Mail Relaying Issue and Raq4

[Gerald Waugh <gwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 5 Sep 2002, Mailing Lists wrote:
<SNIP>
> I've spoken with Gerald about the MX and I know some do the opposite of what
> I have, pointing mail. To the short name. So, if this is not a Raq issue but
> instead a DNS issue, what is the Bind "standard" way? According to
> Sun/Cobalt manual, we should be creating a domain.com pointing to
> mail.domain.com and clicking Accept Email for Domain and by checking Web
> Access by Domain removes the host name from the setup, thus creating a
> ServerAlias on the Raq3.  I have been told that the mail.domain.com is just
> really an IP on the box to take mail.

I have setup many dns zone files on RaQs (not dns gui) and other
servers. I have *never* used a 'mail' host name.
We do use 'smpt' and 'pop' host names, but again they just point to the
ip address. Typical zone file looks like this.

;=========== zone file for domain.tld ===============
$TTL 1d
$ORIGIN	domain.tld.
@ IN SOA ns1.nameserver.tld. root.ns1.nameserver.tld. (
  2002090503 ; Serial#
  2h         ; Refresh
  1h         ; Retry
  2w         ; Expire
  12h        ; Minimum TTL
)

  IN NS ns1.nameserver.tld.
  IN NS ns2.nameserver.tld.

        in      a       123.123.123.123
        in      mx      10 mail-server1.tld.
        in      mx      20 mail-server2.tld.
pop     in      a       123.123.123.123
smtp    in      a       123.123.123.123
www     in      a       123.123.123.123
;====================================================
We only use smtp and pop for the client to setup their email clients,
this way if we decide to move the pop or smtp server the client need not
make any changes, to their system.

> Maybe it is just me and getting used to a different way of making sure
> the Raq4 sets up everything proper.
>
  Maybe it is webmin

Gerald
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