> Hi > > My name is Tom, and i work part-time in small local ISP company > in Croatia. The old Admin quit the job, and all he leaved was a > complete mess behind and the boss assigned me to manage the DNS > servers, customer care etc. > > The newest assignment for me is to create a hosting server > running ISPconfig because the firm has an extra server on which > I installed CentOS 4.3 and all needed services. I assigned a > fixed public IP address 80.253.170.37 for the server and A > record (linhost1) on a firms DNS server under > /var/named/vm-mreze.hr and I even configured reverse zone and > the http://linhost1.vm-mreze.hr are fully operational link. > ISPConfig installation went flawless. The main problem is that > reading the forums I am totally lost regarding MX records for > future domains on my server. Is ISPConfig creating automatically > MX records for example.com on my server or I have to put it in > zone files for every domain? Does linhost1.vm-mreze.hr needs to > be in MX record or created domain will be in MX record on my > server machine? > > And one more thing during installation of ISPConfig when the > following information has to be provided: > > Please enter your MySQL server: E.G. localhost > Please enter your MySQL user: E.G. root > Please enter your MySQL password: Your MySQL password > Please enter a name for the ISPConfig database: E.g. ispconfigdb > Please enter the IP address of the ISPConfig web: E.g. > 192.168.0.1 <--I put a fixed IP address of my machine running > (in my case is 80.253.170.37) is that okay because all that > forum guys confuse me
Only if you check the "Default MX" checkbox. You must check this for every domain/subdomain that you want to receive emails for. If you create a web site www.example.com and check "Default MX", then an MX record will be created for www.example.com, allowing to receive emails for [email protected]. If you want to have an MX record for example.com, go to the Co-Domains tab and check "Default MX" for the Co-Domain example.com. But it might be easier not to use the "Default MX" checkboxes and create your MX records in the DNS Manager. That's how I do it. I always create an A record like mail.example.com, and then an MX record for example.com pointing to mail.example.com. You must use the IP address you see for eth0 when you run Code: ifconfig