The “” record that I set up earlier is an A record. Mail servers require that a mail exchange or MX record be set up as well as a DNS “A” record.
This week, we’ll look at two of the more important services for any workgroup that’s using the macOS Server: mail and calendar services.įirst, we need to make sure that we set up mail exchange (MX) records with our DNS host (by the way, your server can be your own DNS server…but we haven’t covered that topic, so we’re assuming that you have a hosting provider acting as the DNS host for your domain).Įarlier in this series, we set up a DNS record for our example company - that pointed to our server’s IP address. Over the past four articles, we’ve discussed why you’d want to run your own server for personal reasons or for a small business, talked about setting up a used Mac mini from as a server, and described how to set up macOS Server to provide a group of users with file sharing and wiki services.
This is the fifth in the ongoing Rocket Yard series describing how to use Apple’s macOS Server to provide services to users both inside a local network and over the Internet. Find the entire macOS Server series here!
