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On 12/17/2013 10:02 AM, Adrya Stembridge wrote:<br>
<span style="white-space: pre;">> I'm attempting to set up my
trac installation to accept replies via email. This is the first
time configuring a machine to receive mail, and I have a noobish
question. <br>
><br>
> In postfix/main.conf I am asked to provide "myhostname",
which the examples show as 'mail.example.com
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://mail.example.com"><http://mail.example.com></a>'. The next config item is
"mydomain", which the examples show as 'example.com
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://example.com"><http://example.com></a>'. <br>
><br>
> I don't expect much inbound mail traffic. Is it necessary
to have a subdomain for mail to be received? If not, is there any
gotchas with having identical values for "myhostname" and
"mydomain"?<br>
><br>
> PS: I'm actually able to establish a connection to my server
both locally and remote using "telnet example.com
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://example.com"><http://example.com></a> 143" even though my "myhostname" value
is 'mail.example.com <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://mail.example.com"><http://mail.example.com></a>'. The
connection fails with "telnet mail.example.com
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://mail.example.com"><http://mail.example.com></a> 143" since that subdomain is not
configured in DNS. <br>
><br>
> Thanks.<br>
></span><br>
<br>
On a slightly different tangent, iRedMail [<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.iredmail.org/">http://www.iredmail.org/</a>]
has a nice webmin to help with your mail server. I have a couple of
these running and like them.<br>
<br>
Preston<br>
<br>
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