Mail to my domain name.

This is a very "newbie" question.

I have a domain which hosts a Web site on a public server. To be able to
use Leafnode, I have given my home computer a name at the same domain.

What would be involved in making that domain my email address? Would it
work only on an account on the public server? Would assigning that address
to my computer confuse things? The server has email facilities. That is
probably the answer: the mail would have two potential delivery points?

Doug.
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"Doug Laidlaw" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> This is a very "newbie" question.

> I have a domain which hosts a Web site on a public server. To be able to
> use Leafnode, I have given my home computer a name at the same domain.

> What would be involved in making that domain my email address?

You would get someone to agree to provide you email service on some
machine and then you would create an "MX" record for the domain that points
to that address.

> Would it
> work only on an account on the public server? Would assigning that
> address
> to my computer confuse things? The server has email facilities. That is
> probably the answer: the mail would have two potential delivery points?

What address? What two points?

When you set up email service with someone, they will provide you one or
more mail exchangers. You just add those to your domain's zone file as mail
exchangers. This is not really an addressing issue, it's a naming issue. You
specify what machines accept mail for what domains by name. You can, for
example, say that "mail.example.com" handles incoming mail for
"mydomain.com" with "mail2.example.com" as a backup.

All (AFAIK) modern mail handlers check these MX records first and only
look up an address for the domain if an MX record does not exist.

DS

Doug Laidlaw wrote:
> This is a very "newbie" question.
>
> I have a domain which hosts a Web site on a public server.

Do you have a paid for domain name or is it s freebee sight
Dou you have a static or dynamic ip address at home (cable-DSL-dialup)

To be able to
> use Leafnode, I have given my home computer a name at the same domain.
>

That's not necessary to use leafnode at home.

> What would be involved in making that domain my email address? Would it
> work only on an account on the public server? Would assigning that address
> to my computer confuse things? The server has email facilities.

The server mail facilities should be able to forward any subnames to
another host IE yopur home machine.

That is
> probably the answer: the mail would have two potential delivery points?
>
> Doug.

More important is does your home ISP block port 25 outgoing
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