postfix help

i installed postfix on my server using this tutorial and need help what kind of dns i have to setup? like mx or aaaa or cname

also whats SPF, is that important?

thanks :240:

 

also having trouble, pm me

 

Generally an A record for the host and an MX record for the domain pointing to the A record for the host with postfix.

IE, the IP for postfix is 1.2.3.4 . You want to send mail from mysoopercooloffers.com..

IN MX 10 mx.mysoopercooloffers.com.
mx IN A 1.2.3.4

Spf and DKIM are text records.

SPF tells supporting recipient servers which IP addresses are authorized to send email on behalf of your domain. You can learn more here: http://www.mtgsy.net/dns/spfwizard.php

DKIM is a way of signing your message headers/body with a private key and your domain zone holds the public key to check against. There's a web based tool for generating private/public keys.. http://www.dnswatch.info/dkim/create-dns-record

 

OMG you just saved me. Can i do mail.mysupercooloffers.com ?

+REP

 

bump! still cant connect to smtp. need some one to guide me one time then ill know

 

look in /var/log/messages , /var/log/maillog

disable iptables..

 

lol says a bunch of shit, i dont know what

 

RTFL: Read The Fucking Log!

 

How can you not know how to read a mail log?

 

If you have some specific questions I can answer them for you but your post is pretty broad.

For DKIM the easiest way IMO is to just use webmin/virtualmin.

http://www.webmin.com/download.html

It will automatically append the milter lines to the end of your main.cf for postfix.

SPF is all done in your DNS records at Godaddy or wherever you're running the domains from.