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New company: First technical steps. Please help.
| Posted by Vibgyor, 11-07-2007, 05:23 PM |
| Hi.
I have moderate experience in administrating. I recently got a quarter cabinet, and I have 2 servers in there.
I have registered a company name, as a domain which is currently hosted at GoDaddy (www/mail) (mydomain.com)
But I have installed centos5 on one server, and called it web1.mydomain.com, added the web1 CNAME in GoDaddy's DNS control. Even did an rDNS to it through my provider.
I have installed Webmin on it to help me add virtual servers (who will be my customers)
And web1.mydomain.com has a mail server on it (Postfix).
Might even put DNS on it. These virtual servers will send emails as well (as I'll be hosting them)
But for now, what will be my next steps in getting my mail server (or the main server) accepted in the web world, for example, I've done SPF records, and rDNS. But what else do I need to do so my email is accepted everywhere?
The virtual domains will be sending mail using the postfix, and ofcourse it'll mean they're piggybacking on web1.mydomain.com, so I guess I need to do stuff so email from web1.mydomain.com will be accepted worldwide.
What can I do?
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| Posted by utropicmedia-karl, 11-07-2007, 05:32 PM |
| Look in the offers section and find a server admin provider that can walk you through the steps. SeeksAdmin or TouchSupport are 2 that come to mind.
Regards,
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| Posted by Vibgyor, 11-07-2007, 08:40 PM |
| But no one else is willing to just help out with a couple steps?
These companies look like they want to work per hour and stuff.
I'd rather be able to ask for what they think needs to be done, or I ask "hey, how would I go about doing this?"
..and stuff like that.
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| Posted by david510, 11-08-2007, 01:52 AM |
| You should install spam assassin softwares to limit the spamming on the server. When large number of mails are originated from your server, there are chances that your mail server IP will be blocked in the spam databases such as spamcop.net. Most of the mail servers worldwide check these databases to see the mail server IP is listed there, before receiving the SMTP request from that mail server.
Install virus protection, so that all emails are scanned properly before they are accepted for delivery.
You can set particular limits like, a user can send only this much number of emails per hour, say 100 emails/hour. This will make sure huge amount mails are not delivered from your server in less time.
In the SPF make sure the you have added the "mx" entry.
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| Posted by toby27, 11-08-2007, 07:42 AM |
| vibgayor, I think u can ask platinumsupport. They charge per month at just 29$ NO MATTER how many issues you have. It's very great i guess. I haven't used it before but have emailed to ask them because i may want to use the service next time.
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| Posted by Lightwave, 11-08-2007, 07:46 AM |
| I didn't get the impression he used cPanel...
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| Posted by Devilish, 11-08-2007, 10:43 AM |
| uses webmin
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| Posted by Vibgyor, 11-08-2007, 11:09 AM |
| The SPF looks like this:
v=spf1 a:web1.testdomain.com includeecureserver.net -all
GoDaddy hosts testdomains.com and it's email, and I still use it. But I also want web1.testdomain.com to be able to send out email.
I guess I just need to figure out how it shouldn't say root@web1 in the headers of all emails it sends out, lol
Meanwhile, thank you for everything else you said. Virtualmin/Webmin took care of it all, I'll just need to figure out how to limit emails to 100/hr, etc in Postfix configs.
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| Posted by Vibgyor, 11-08-2007, 11:18 AM |
| toby27, sounds about right. How do I get hold of them?
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| Posted by Steven.C, 11-08-2007, 03:28 PM |
| Easily done by getting their contact info. Visit their site.
http://platinumservermanagement.com/
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| Posted by Vibgyor, 11-08-2007, 03:36 PM |
| i've gotten your base package from seeksadmin. Still waiting for your tech to add me on msn as the initial setup has begun, but i wanna know what's going on.
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