Re: pop/smtp connectivity

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From: Kevin D. Goodknecht Sr. [MVP] (admin_at_nospam.WFTX.US)
Date: 02/10/05 

Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 17:16:35 -0600

In news:uWAvrL8DFHA.624@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl,
ms <support@mtschindler.com> commented
Then Kevin replied below:
> I registered a domain mydomain.com and got an e-mail
> account as well. My home network is running 2003 server
> with DNS also with mydomain.com .
> Since my pop server at the ISP is mail.mydomain.com my
> DNS server doesn't know where to send it to and since
> it's not on the local network it fails. I know I need to
> set up a record in DNS to send mail.mydomain.com to the
> outside but I'm not sure what to setup and how.
> Any help will be appreciated - Mark

Create a new host record named mail, in the mydomain.com zone, give it the
IP address of the external mail server. 

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