>Does it matter which DNS IP address you use in your SMTP settings? Does it
>have to be the same one that has your MX record, etc?
No, it doesn't matter. You can use any DNS server there, just so long as
it is a real DNS server (not an internal DNS server that returns private
IPs) and will answer all queries from the IMail server (not just domains
that it is authoritative for).
>Interland is my web host, but I use the DNS at freeservers.com through a
>co-marketing deal with about.com so that I can set up free websites for my
>visitors. I submitted the MX and A records to freeservers.com and they look
>like this:
That won't matter for outgoing mail (although at first glance it appears OK).
>They said that they couldn't enter a PTR record and that whoever owned the
>IP addresses (Interland) had to do it, so I had Interland enter the PTR
>record. Does that matter?
That's correct. Having the PTR record can help, and can't hurt.
>They also gave me one from
>swbell.net and if I used that one, I could send email to my own email
>address at swbell.net, but not to any other domains.
That's probably because were using a swbell.net DNS server that only allows
queries on domains it is authoritative for.
-Scott
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