Setting up mail service

I am setting up mail service for the first time. I think that I have everything figured out and set up right, but I'm a novice and don't know for sure.
1) I have not yet asked my ISP to update my MX records because I want to be sure everything is working right first. Is there a way to test the email system prior to making the switch to the MX records?
2) One thing that is puzzling me is that even though I haven't made the MX records switch, to my mind it still makes sense that outgoing mail should work. Is this assumption correct? Yet, when I try to send something from a local user server account through the server's SMTP then the email gets lost. Is this something that will automatically work once the MX records are switched over?
Thanks a million.

MX records have only to do with how other e-mail systems find you. They have nothing to do with outgoing mail at all, except if the receiving system is doing a reverse dns lookup as part of the spam filtering. Try turning your logging level to "Information" and send a test message and look at the smtp logs and see what kind of reply you get from the receiving postoffice.
To do some testing you can use telnet to hit your system from outside and send some test strings/messages. If you do a google search there should be instruction on how to do that. I'd try doing a search on something like "test smtp with telnet".
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The World is Awesome wrote:
I am trying to set up Mail, but I am having some difficulties with the information I need to add. For example, what is account type (POP, IMAP, Exchange), description and outlook web access server?
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