Setting up mail services. Name of server needs to be changed?

I setup my xserve with snow leopard. By default it was named server.ourcompanyname.private.
Here is my problem Im trying to host our company web site along with mail services. Need to bring all this in-house.
I have with my web provider 5 dedicated IP address, and router address. I bridged the modem to an airport extreme to hand out all the ip address and DHCP, this was done with apple support.
I need advise on how to go about setting up all the services. Can the name of the server be changed without causing major problems?
Any advise would be appreciated.

One other note. Can I change the .private. to .com and will this help me setup mail and hosting services?

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Hi...I've been reading the forum for days and have been finding information in small bits and pieces...but I need someone who can help me put it all together. Basically, we are trying to move our mail server in-house. We have a better than T1 connection, I just need SOMEONE who can tell me exactly what we need to do to set up mail service on osx server 10.4.8 to work for us. Any takers?
I have enough knowledge to set up our web and file sharing services (very easy, no brainer stuff), but really I'm lost on the Mail Service setup.
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Hi
I hope this thread is not resolved. Even if it is, this is my solution.
0.1. You must have a domain name pointing to your public IP
0.2. Your router (if you have one) must forward smtp, pop, and imap ports to the private IP adress of the sever
Server Admin
1. You must have DNS enable with your domain name configured. I presume that you know to.
2. Setup your mail service
in General
2.1. Activate POP
2.2. Acivate Imap (if you need)
2.3. Activate SMTP
2.4. Accept incoming mail
2.5. Retain outgoing mail
in filter
2.6. Set up as you need
in advanced->security
2.7. Set up aurhentifaction for smtp and pop.(important for smtp because you can be a spam relay)
in advanced->Hosting
2.8. add your domain name in localhost window
Users admin
3. Go to your users account (mail tab)
3.1 Activate mail
3.2 Choose receipt method.
I've followed this procedure 5 or 6 times and it's working fine every time.
Be carefull. In 10.4.8, something change in Imap service and the send of messages dont work. There is a little corrective to apply (a line to change in a config file but I do not remember what)
Sorry if the words are not exactly the same on you screen. I'm working on a french vs and my english is not very good.
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Vinc'

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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.
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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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After changing a mail list name in Server end, users can't see the update in outlook client

Dear all,
This is a real issue. I am a Help-desk in a global company and after changing a mail list name in Server end, users can't see the update in outlook client. Even I download Offline address book in full detail, user still can't see the change in her outlook.
Does anyone know how to fix it?
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I am setting up an internal mail server for the first time. Some questions:
1) What should my domain and host names be listed as in Mail settings?
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This is based on my observation not any documentation, so take it for what it is worth. The information that you changed determines what mail the email system will accept and pass on. It passes it on based on the shortnames and nothing else.
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If you delete all of your users on the server and then reenter them, they will be in correctly on the Server Preferences window, but they are still going to have to be changed on the users machines. I've had some problems with the old setup not working on a user machine even after putting something back in exactly the way it was before, resulting in the need to totally remove the account on the users machines mail setup and reenter it. I really think the quick way, which won't be very quick if you have a lot of accounts is to go into both the Server Preferences and manually change the address there, and they either send the users instructions on how to change it on their machines or go to the machine and change/help them change it there.
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Do not to this if your server is handling incoming mail from outside your network.
Few remote mail servers will use SSL, so if your server requires SSL then you will not be able to receive mail from outside your domain.
'Use', on the other hand, advertises the fact your server supports SSL, so clients and remote servers can use if if they like, but this still allows other mail in.
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Whatever you set it to.
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Are you using a self-signed certificate? if so, you're going to get that unless you do a lot of extra work. Getting a real certificate from a trusted authority should resolve this.
As for the slow connections, the use of SSL shouldn't significantly impact connection or delivery/transfer times, so something else is amiss.

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Hi Alaa,
The Windows 2003 email service is just a IIS component for email relay\routing SMTP service. You can't have distribution list or backup emails as such. (You need to use Exchange Server for those premium features and control). Its just a SMTP Gateway service.
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I wish to set up the Mail service to act as an smtp server only.
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I have turned on the smtp mail service and it is running, but I'm not sure what credentials I should use to authenticate when connecting to this smtp server...
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