quick question about settings for a mail server...

[skeebop]

After obtaining a domain name from a registrar, to point all mail to a static ip address that will have a ms exchange server configured.....do all i need to do esentially is point the MX records on the registrar to my external wan IP address? That is of course aside from the configuring of the server, ports, etc.

 

[Phaedrus]

I think you just need to add an mx record to your dns, set to the internal ip address of your mail server also.

 

[XOR != OR]

I would add an A record for the host, then point the mx record at the a record

192.168.1.1 A tpno.org
192.168.1.2 A mail.tpno.org
tpno.org MX 10 mail.tpno.org

I think that's how it works, it's been a while since I hand wrote these things