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SME Server, MX records transfer from old ISP 2

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Jun 1, 2007
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I have been with my company (a wireless Internet provider) for about a year and we were using a local T-1 provider for internet which came with a business class e-mail. Well we moved on to AT&T T-1s and now we don't need them, so I installed a SME server 7.0 on a mid-tower with 250GB /usr directory and i think that i have it set up but i want to test it without having the DNS point to it's IP instead of our previous ISP's. How would i go about doing this? I am REALLY new to Linux and i only know a few commands and a walkthough only gets me to following instructions instead of learning what i am doing so If anyone has a better recommendation instead of SME server or has used it before and has it routing mail already please let me know how you did with out a walk through

Thanks for reading my post
 
If you only want to test if you email server is working try send a mail the name of the maskin.

If it's name is foobar.example.com send a mail to root@foobar.example.com.
 
wouldn't i have to have MX DNS records point to that server first? because the domain name is already being directed to our old ISP and Or should i set the POP3 server to the IP of that server and hope it works? The reason i am hesitant is because if it doesn't work i won't know if it was because of DNS issues or because of the server improperly configured.

And btw i noticed a error in my previous post... my /home directory is 250GB not /usr
 
Mailing to a local account should work regardless of DNS. If you want to set up a test MX, that's fine. Creating a MX record for "test.example.com" pointing to "foobar.example.com" should work fine. If you configure your new server to accept mail the same way for "example.com" and "test.example.com", then switching to the production MX values should be simple.
 
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