Re: [qmailtoaster] Re: A rudimentary question for multi-domain hosting

2014-04-28 Thread Dan McAllister
On 4/25/2014 6:08 PM, Eric Shubert wrote: On 04/25/2014 02:58 PM, Dan McAllister wrote: Whatever you decide to put into /var/qmail/control/me, just make sure its valid. - say you put mailhost.example22.com in there - First, make sure that mailhost.example22.com resolves to that host's IP

[qmailtoaster] Re: A rudimentary question for multi-domain hosting

2014-04-28 Thread Eric Shubert
On 04/28/2014 07:31 AM, Dan McAllister wrote: On 4/25/2014 6:08 PM, Eric Shubert wrote: On 04/25/2014 02:58 PM, Dan McAllister wrote: Whatever you decide to put into /var/qmail/control/me, just make sure its valid. - say you put mailhost.example22.com in there - First, make sure that

[qmailtoaster] Re: A rudimentary question for multi-domain hosting

2014-04-28 Thread Eric Shubert
Nice write-up, Dan. I'd like to make a few additional points, inline. On 04/28/2014 10:55 AM, Dan McAllister wrote: Kelly: While Eric's reply is clear about the fact that the MX record has to use an A record reference (vs CNAME), I think the answer you need here is simply that the A-record has

Re: [qmailtoaster] Re: A rudimentary question for multi-domain hosting

2014-04-28 Thread Dan McAllister
On 4/28/2014 2:46 PM, Eric Shubert wrote: Nice write-up, Dan. I'd like to make a few additional points, inline. On 04/28/2014 10:55 AM, Dan McAllister wrote: Kelly: While Eric's reply is clear about the fact that the MX record has to use an A record reference (vs CNAME), I think the answer

[qmailtoaster] Re: A rudimentary question for multi-domain hosting

2014-04-25 Thread Eric Shubert
On 04/25/2014 02:58 PM, Dan McAllister wrote: Whatever you decide to put into /var/qmail/control/me, just make sure its valid. - say you put mailhost.example22.com in there - First, make sure that mailhost.example22.com resolves to that host's IP address (either directly or via NAT) [ for

Re: [qmailtoaster] Re: A rudimentary question for multi-domain hosting

2014-04-25 Thread Kelly Cobean
Sorry about the hijack Eric. Won't do that again. One last question. Should the MX records for the other domains indicate the hostname that is in the me file or should they be a record for a host in their own domain that maps to my server ip? Ie should I have 5 domains all with identical MX

Re: [qmailtoaster] Re: A rudimentary question for multi-domain hosting

2014-04-25 Thread Kelly Cobean
Sent from my iPhone On Apr 25, 2014, at 6:08 PM, Eric Shubert e...@shubes.net wrote: On 04/25/2014 02:58 PM, Dan McAllister wrote: Whatever you decide to put into /var/qmail/control/me, just make sure its valid. - say you put mailhost.example22.com in there - First, make sure that

[qmailtoaster] Re: A rudimentary question for multi-domain hosting

2014-04-25 Thread Eric Shubert
MX records must point to a type A record, which may belong to any domain. Here's an example: $ host shubes.net shubes.net has address 65.101.54.95 shubes.net mail is handled by 20 datamatters.us. shubes.net mail is handled by 10 shubes.net. $ I use my business server as a backup to my personal