My early working ISP-Server Setup - Ubuntu 5.10 "Breezy Badger". This installation is just for my personal sites, more changes are to come. After a week of different attempts, email finally works. Although adjustments are still needed. I am posting this for my own reference and maybe it will help someone else out. It's not perfect but things work for now. Setup details: I like Ubuntu godaddy for registered domain names Behind a linksys router using NAT Dynamic IP from my ISP installed DDclient Using zoneedit for dns and mail services www.zoneedit.com Using the installation from ISP-Server Setup - Ubuntu 5.10 "Breezy Badger" http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect_setup_ubuntu_5.10 I followed the directions but just prior to installing ISPConfig I imaged the drive for a quick restore just in case things didn't work out. Used acronis for this part. It helps to quickly restore a hard drive after something blows up in my face. During the ISPConfig installation option I chose: Please enter the host name: www Please enter the domain: mysite.com I chose this option, so I could access just one site to make ispconfig changes. Finished the installation. Linksys forwarding ports. For tesing purposes, on the router, set the server IP on the DMZ. In godaddy set the nameservers to zoneedit's name servers zoneedit setups set the A record to both www.mysite.com and mysite.com setup zoneedit MX Mail Servers (MX) MailServer field: mysite.com Mail Destination field: mysite.com I left rank alone set to 1. ddclient configuratoin: ddclient.conf file contains piid=/var/run/ddclient.pid protocol=zoneedit1 #use=if, if=web use=web, web=checkip.dyndns.org/, web-skip='IP Address' server=www.zoneedit.com login=xxxxxx password=xxxxxxxxxxx mysite.com,mysite1.com,mysite2.com I will be changing the checkip.dyndns.org to something else since I'm not using their service. Hopefully I'll be able to check the IP from my linksys router. In ispconfig: Management -> Services -> Turn off DNS Server Tools -> Portscanner Scan the ports. On the router forward the ports to the server's IP. Take server off the DMZ. Also looking into keeping it on the DMZ and enabling the firewall. Management -> Services -> Turn on Firewall Management -> Settings -> Server Tab IP Address is the IP of the server Management -> Settings -> EMail Tab Maildir: is checked. Management -> Settings -> DNS Tab Default Ns1: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx this is the IP of my ISP Default Ns2: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx this is the IP of my ISP I got this from the Status Tab of my router. Default MX: is unchecked One big headache was that my ISP it seems that my ISP does not update their DNS records quickly. Even after the web site would come up e-mail would not go through, it would bounce back as undeliverable. However, when I sent an e-mail from google or hotmail it went through right away. So after waiting another day, e-mail started going through from my ISP. Downloaded and installed webmail package from the ispconfig site. I just created one client to hold all the sites. Creating a site in ispconfig: Made sure Create DNS: is unchecked For the new site: ISP Manager -> new site -> Co-Domains -> Click the IP ( which is the local IP of my server ) -> Create DNS: unchecked -> Create DNS MX: unchecked I test e-mail using Outlook Express For server information the Incoming mail (POP3) is www.mysite.com I think it can also be mysite.com For Outgoing mail (SMTP) is www.mysite.com I had to request from my IPS to allow e-mail to be sent from my IP on port 25. That was it. In the future I may going re-install ispconfig and enter the local IP for the domain name. Then create one client and use the client to create the domains as a reseller. Maybe it will work better for me. Important links I used: http://www.howtoforge.com/forums/showthread.php?t=346&highlight=zoneedit http://www.howtoforge.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1022&highlight=zoneedit http://www.howtoforge.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1228&highlight=zoneedit http://www.howtoforge.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1070&highlight=mail http://www.howtoforge.com/forums/showthread.php?p=5663
