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On 24/05/2010 23:14, Simon Waters wrote:
You'd love one of my old colleagues - he was our Business Hostmaster. I gave him a lift to work one day and on the way he told me he'd dropped a clanger. For reasons I don't recall he'd decided it was a clever idea to change the IP address of the box we used for hosting the mail servers of our business customers. He realised this was an error when the first call came in saying the customer's system couldn't resolve the mail server. Over the next 24 hours as the DNS servers updated - you guessed it.Damon Young wrote:I have been trying to understand how mail server are set up. I can not get it right or to the point do not understand it. So I am looking for help to sit down and set it up. I am still learn to use linux all.Aside from the other comments, if the answer is "set up your own email server", then someone probably asked the wrong question. Sure I run an email server or two (or well 4 or 5 or 6 depending how you count them), and some folks on this list help runs thousands, but then I work for an ISP and people kind of expect us to handle email for some domains.
My response was to glance over from driving and comment 'You PILLOCK!'I think that was the conversation where we defined 'Professional' as 'Paid to break bigger toys'.
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