Mail setup questions?

[Pippa]

I am a little further thanks to everyones help, this is the current status.

Mail setup, I have the following configured and working, but what next?

A 2Mb ADSL connection into a Netgear DG834 router in straight through mode (Public IP on both the WAN & LAN side of router) then into one of the NICs on the Xserve (with a different Public IP) and other NIC (Private IP range) into a Gigabit switch.

I have local DNS, Firewall and NAT running on the Xserve and it is setup as an OD Master.

I want to run the mail server and my questions are –

1. Do I need to change anything on the router or just open up the Firewall?

2. Do I inform the ISP controlling our domain to point the MX record to the router Public IP or the Xserve one Public IP?

If anyone has any other comments I am willing to listen and learn.

Pippa.

[justyn.pride]

Pippa

If, as you say, your XServe is running NAT rather than the router, then you will just need to open up the relevant ports in your firewall (25 for SMTP, and 100 for POP). Only open up 100 if you want users outside of your network to download their emails.

Concerning public IP addresses and the mx record, are not the IP record for the router and xserve the same (ie with it being a straight through, router setup) ?

Justyn

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