Setting up e-mail services in home server
I hope someone can give me a helpful hand with this. My situation is that I have an ADSL connection with all ports open (except SMTP 25) and static IP address. I have a Windows 2003 Server Standard machine running and a DNS in it together with Microsoft POP3 Service. I have a domain registered in godaddy (a .info) and have a host name made there to ns.domain.info pointing to my static IP and the domain is configured to resolve the same ns.domain.info. The domain actually works fine, HTTP is working as well and I've tested it from other computers as well outside of my network. Now comes the DNS configuration which is probably the problematic thing with my case. Actually none of the mails Im trying to send reach the POP3 in my server. I've been reconfing the DNS numerous times and no luck so far. Currently it is set so that there is a Forward Lookup zone file for "domain.info", there's an A record to my static IP, an NS record ns.domain.info and some A records for subdomains which work just fine for HTTP. The server computer name in network is "server" and I've set up the DNS so that MX is "domain.info MX [0] domain.info". Another problem with my network is that none of the computers including the server itself can find anything via the static public IP inside the network, so to see the HTTP and stuff via the server, I've confed hosts file like "127.0.0.1 domain.info". The POP3 service is configured and there is a domain "domain.info" created and a mailbox "test" under it. Anyways, the e-mails do not reach the mailbox which I've tried to send. I've also tried to configure the DNS so that MX is mail.domain.info and I set up A entry for mail.domain.info pointing to local server IP 192.168.62.50. Didn't help. I also tried setting mail.domain.info in hosts file to point to 192.168.62.50 and still nothing. So, whata hell is going on with the system? I've kicking the wall with my head and it seems impossible to find the way out of my problem. There is probably something I'm doing dramatically wrong and I just don't know how to find the place. The POP3 service should be very ok, because I've also tried with MailEnable and haven't had any luck with that either. Is SMTP a must to get POP3 working?
Please, someone, give me some hints how to configure the DNS for e-mail service in the same server and something I should look at to resolve the issue. Thanks a lot!!!! I'm looking forward to your replies.
