Laptop users

[ghost807]

thanx for you help, i'll work on getting these things going and let you how it turns out.

[ghost807]

that works like a champ. i will try this some more later today when i go home.
so far everything works like it should with no glitches.

thanx for your patience and understanding.
dave

[amir]

How do I do something internaly to resolve my box ip address to a host name as you said is neccessary to do?

This is my hosts file:

127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
192.168.1.180 mail.mydomain.com mailhost

Mx record of mydomain.com is pointing to my router's external IP address and and all ports are forwarded to the Scalix box (DMZ). Also "Anonymous Internet Requests" is allowed.

[florian]

1. Find out your Scalix server's hostname:

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hostname --fqdn

2. On your laptop, add the following line to your windows/system32/drivers/etc/hosts file

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1.2.3.4 my.host.name

where 1.2.3.4 is your external IP address (the one that can be reached from the internet) and my.host.name is what you found in step 1
3. when creating your outlook profile, make sure that you use THIS name for your server name. you could also change the line in step 2 to

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1.2.3.4 my.host.name scalix-default-mail

to simplify your task.

Cheers,
Florian.

[amir]

Thank you Florian,

Your post is useful, but my question is about setting up the Scalix box DNS not the outlook client laptop.

I should be straight forward but Im getting comfused!! So please post what has to be done (regarding DNS) to setup a mail server for a domain name.

This is what I have done so far:

1) Created an A record for MYDOMAIN.com called mail.MYDOMAIN.com
2) Pointed the MX record of the domain to mail.MYDOMAIN.com
3) On scalix box modified /etc/hosts to the following:

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127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
192.168.1.180 mail.mydomain.com mailhost

What else should I do?

[florian]

well... what is your problem then? you might want to open a new thread as this thread was about mobile users having problems with their laptops....

-- f.

[mephisto]

1) Created an A record for MYDOMAIN.com called mail.MYDOMAIN.com

Do you also have a reverse lookup for this? You can check by running
nslookup IPADDRESSOFYOURMAILSERVER

You should get something like this back:

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Name:    mail.mydomain.com
Address:  xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

[amir]

I have started a new thread in Scalix Server forum please continue there:
http://www.scalix.com/community/viewtopic.php?p=20857