fenderjbass
IS-IT--Management
This is such a newb question it's embarrassing. But I have ask. I have a little real world experience working with Exchange 2003. Just simple mail creation etc tasks. So I want to get more experience setting it up from scratch. I host my website from home, and so I'd like to setup an email server that I can mess up and learn from as many times as I want, and not have the client yell at me. So I installed and configured Exchange Server 2003. I took a class on 2007, so I already had a good idea on the basics of everything. What makes this a DNS question is this. My domain is registered with godaddy, and set to use their nameservers. I created an MX record for mail.mydomain.net. So here's the newb part. Do i create a cname for pop.mydomain.net and smtp.domain.net? It's been about a year since I took the class, I assume i set up POP and SMTP correctly in exchange. If i connect outlook to exchange server i can't send or receive mail. If i try setting it up with pop and smtp same results. I did create a nat on my firewall to forward smtp and pop to mail server. So it sounds like its a DNS issue.