On Thu, 28 Feb 2002 10:04:17 -0700 Praedor Tempus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Here is a basic question, new to me. > > I recently bought a few domain names. At this point I am still trying > to learn how (or if) I can use them...I have no idea as yet. I would > like to be able to name my box permanently based on one of my domains > but do not know how to go about it. I'd also like to have my own email > address (I am running postfix) that anyone can mail to. Right now I am > stuck with emailing out via postfix, and receiving via yahoo (or my > local university mailserver). > > This is on a laptop that is connected to a university network during the > day and to a different network (from home) at night. Can someone point > out how I might pull this off? I would rather not be my own dns, > though I suppose I'd try it if I had to. I do have tinydns available > but not setup on my system (Mandrake 8.1). I dorked with it > experimentally for a little while but got nowhere with it. > > praedor Praedor, If you want your own mailhost, it should be avaible at the same IP address at all times... moving it around will cause problems. I won't even begin at trying to come up with all the failure modes... :^) The biggest problem you'd have is your mail being seriously delayed or not delivered at all... Assuming you have a permanent IP, usually sending mail to <hostmaster@??????.???> (your registrar or ISP) requesting the domain be pointed at your IP gets you the DNS entry. To setup your PostFix, you can check http://www.postfix.org for information. I have started a postfix page at http://pfortin.com/Linux/PostFix that should help too... Since you have multiple domains, you might also want to run virtual domains for mail and www... scan through my web site for more info... HTH, Pierre > On Monday 25 February 2002 12:33 pm, you wrote: > > On Mon, 25 Feb 2002 12:51:28 -0500 Randy Kramer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > Pierre, > > > > > > Thanks for this (I'm going to put some of it on a WikiLearn page as > > > a reminder to me), but there were some things I didn't understand > > > in reading your pages. Questions embedded below and afterwards. > > > > > > http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/FightingSpam > [...] > >
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