----- Original Message -----
From: "Jerry Feldman"
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jerry Feldman"
To: Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2005 3:02 PM Subject: Re: [SLE] OT: own email address On Wednesday 24 August 2005 2:10 am, Gerald Humphreys wrote:
Hi All
Sorry or this OT, but i would like to know what all i need to create my own email address. say for instance, gerald@gerald.org.za. i've searched and dont really understand what all i have to do.
Assuming that you are the admin on gerald.org.za. Without doing anything, each user on that system should receive email to that user id. So, if gerald is a user, and if you have portfix or sendmail properly configured, there should be no problem. If you want to receive email as ger@gerald.org.za, you can set up an alias. (eg. /etc/alias).
This should also assume that gerald.org.za is listed as a valid host in DNS. If gerald.org.za is listed by some DNS server (eg. org.za), then the rest of the world should be able to send you email.
Thanks all for the answers. so in other words i can go and register the domain at www.org.za and then everything else I set up on my pc. Yes. I would also suggest that you set up an MX (mail exchanger) record
On Wednesday 24 August 2005 9:29 am, Gerald Humphreys wrote: pointing to that domain.
DNS can be a bit complicated. You can let org.za manage the DNS for you or you can become the master for the gerald.org.za domain, so if you need additional hosts under that domain you can set them up, but in this case, just stick with org.za.
Hey thanks for the help. I dont know anything about domains and sendmail, postfix, or any of that stuff. I'll let org.za do everything for me and tell i know whats..what and know whats going on. Thanks again. Gerald