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We are a small business company having several branches in our country. We are planning to setup our own email server for our staffs to communicate through our email server with in our Company from Different branches at various branches.

For this purpose ,at our head office, upgraded our Business Broadband plan to get Static IP with Port 25 available to use . we have a domain ( www.abcsolutions.com) which is dedicated to staffs and clients of our Company . and Company Web Portal is a another domain which are using only for Public's for Website Purpose only .

Now , We want to host a mail server in our main branch office . And we purchased latest high end PC and All technicality related to router and Port forwarding 80 and 25 is done with success. and now we want move further host our mail server and here actually we are failing to set DNS settings of the domain( www.abcsolutions.com)to work properly. We want to know how to set up mail server using single static IP becoz name server settings in our Domian Hoster asking atleast 2 ns servers . how to proceed further

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Welcome to the site. What you're looking for is standard operational configuration information, and not the area of our site. This needs to go somewhere else, but I'm not sure if it's Serverfault or Webmasters. – Jeff Ferland♦ Jan 24 '12 at 15:54
Already asked over on webmasters, so closing here. – Rory Alsop♦ Jan 24 '12 at 19:48
@RoryAlsop: Is that Problem with the DNS settings for our new company mailserver, or some other question? – David Cary Jul 10 '12 at 20:13

closed as off topic by Jeff Ferland♦, Rory Alsop♦ Jan 24 '12 at 19:48

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MX record needed for mail:

abcsolutions.com IN MX   0 www.abcsolutions.com

A record needed to match:

www.abcsolutions.com IN A  0.1.2.3

To deal with the two name server issues, look for a service offering backup / secondary nameserver services.

For questions like this, start at Serverfault. Example: http://serverfault.com/questions/349691/linux-debian-setting-up-a-mailserver-dns-records

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SPF records are a good idea too, otherwise mail will bounce all day long. – StrangeWill Jan 24 '12 at 17:24

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