Hello I want to run a mail server from within debian linux guest with vmware workstation xp host. The setup is a bridged network connection I know what I must do I think (see below ) but I do not know how please can you point me to some howto;s that may help here are things that need to be done: a)Configure the Guest with a static IP on my home network. Verify that I can telnet to port 25 of the Guest from a system on my home network. B)Then configure my home firewall/NAT box to forward incoming connections on TCP port 25 to the static IP address I gave my Guest. Then test that I can telnet to port 25 from a system outside my home network. c)After that I need to configure the appropriate DNS records for my domain so that outside hosts know how to contact my mailserver. thanks for any feedback wiseman or not so wise
if you using an free DNS name like from no-ip or dyndns than you dont need to worry about doing an MX records .... to see if your server ports are working than goto like http://www.canyouseeme.org and tell it to test port 25 and it will tell you if the port is open or not if not than you have got a firewall / port forwarding problem or maybe the ISP blocks port 25 but besides that you got what u need to do down right
re mailserver thants for your tips but sttill need to know howto do the actual points in ato c in my orininal post. thanks wiseman
Take a look at chapter 5 on http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect_setup_debian_etch_p3 . You can easily do this in the web interface of your router. Do you have a static public IP address?
Ok, then you create an A record, e.g. mail.yourdomain.com, pointing to your static public IP, and then afterwards an MX record like this: yourdomain.com. MX 0 mail.yourdomain.com.
