Re: Choice of "mailname" for mail server: suggestions welcome
On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 08:47:36AM -0600, Tom Browder wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 08:37 Henning Follmann <hfollmann@itcfollmann.com>
> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 12:38:45PM +0100, john doe wrote:
>
> ...
>
> > Don't do THAT!
> >
> > RFC2181 section 10.3 says you can't point your MX record to a CNAME
> >
>
> Maybe that's why Namecheap has the MXE record that points to an IP.
>
> Besides the relevant RFCs, can anyone recommend a good book that covers all
> this. I have a couple of the O'Reilly books on "Postfix" and "DNS and Bind"
> and I am going back to refresh myself, but any other recs?
>
For years I operated a couple of sendmail installations. That and the
O'Reilly Sendmail book tought me a lot.
Today I prefer postfix. There is a german book from Peer Heinlein.
This is an excellent source if you want to set up a multidomain
mailserver completely driven by a LDAP directory.
-H
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