Setup Leopard for Email, DNS and File Sharing Help!!
Hello!
I'm new to configuring Leopard and I'm a bit confused. I already configured windows server but it's my first Mac Server
My questions:
1- Which name should I use for the DNS? I have a domain registered, do I use mydomain.com? I won't be hosting websites here as they are hosted somewhere else.
2- How do I configure email to use mydomain.com? I'm really confused here, because on my first try, when sending emails it was coming as [email protected] instead of [email protected] I don't want to redirect the MX records until I do this.
3- when creating users it doesn't take @mydomain.com as default on the email address, do I have to type it manually?
Please help!! I need to have this working ASAP!!
Thank you very much in advance!!!
hi, and welcome to Apple Discussion.
1. There are no hard and fast rules, but it is a good idea to have a dns A record and reverse record in the format of say 'myservername.domain.com' and call your server myservername.
2. the fact that you have the term 'local' in there, would suggest you don't have a correct forward and reverse DNS setup. That is not the end of the world for email, but best to get the DNS setup first then reboot the server.
3. Correct. You can add the format [email protected] as a secondary name in the workgroup setting.
Tim
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