Hello, On 4 Aug 2006 at 15:43, W B Hacker wrote:
> Do not try to run a 'public facing' MTA unless you have a fixed IP address > with > 'PTR' and 'MX' records as well as an 'A' record. Your ISP Terms and > Conditions > must also permit running a mail server. Many do not. > > Show evidence of understanding and responsibility and you will find lots of > help > here. Ouch that hurt :) but I take your point. Just to give you a little background. It is not that I know nothing about mail servers, DNS, relaying, etc. I have been running mail server under windows for a long time and it currently handles about about 17K messages per day. I am thinking of changing it to use exim under FreeBSD but I wanted to test and see. Until now I haven't head a separate box to test and I would hate to mess with the production server. Now that I have one I wanted to look at things using cygwin with the plan of moving later the whole mailing system under some flavor of linux. I am willing to learn. I am just trying to create a test system and see how it operates, what challenges lay ahead, etc. FYI - even for the test box I have all things cofigured correctly with revdns, etc. If you think you can still help me, please do. I do not want to try first by installing FreeBSD because there will be many more challenges to face even before implementing a mail server. This test setup is purely for the purpose of watching the system under vairous load and seeing what else I need to think of. Thanks anyway. -- Zbigniew Szalbot www.lc-words.com -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
