Josh’s Mail-in-a-Box is named box.occams.info. This is its hostname.
Your Mail-in-a-Box may handle the email for multiple domains names, but the box has a single name.
+Your Mail-in-a-Box may handle the email for multiple domain names, but the box has a single name.
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-Wherever you rent your box, you must choose the Ubuntu 14.04 x64 operating system. Most any cloud provider will do but not Amazon Web Services because its network is often blocked to prevent users from sending spam.
+Wherever you rent your box, you must choose the Ubuntu 14.04 x64 operating system. Most any cloud provider will do, but not Amazon Web Services because its network is often blocked to prevent users from sending spam.
-Each cloud provider will have different instructions for setting up “reverse DNS.” You must follow your cloud provider’s instructions for setting the reverse DNS of your box to your box’s hostname.
+Each cloud provider will have different instructions for setting up “reverse DNS.” As described above, Digital Ocean's method is to give your droplet the same name as your hostname, but other providers may use differentmethods. You must follow your cloud provider’s instructions for setting the reverse DNS of your box to your box’s hostname.
Josh’s box’s reverse DNS is set to the same as the box’s hostname: box.occams.info.
- Your registar may ask you to enter these hostnames with the domain name part omitted, as mine did in this case. When you enter is the part of the fake hostname before the domain name.
+Your registrar may ask you to enter these hostnames with the domain name part omitted, as mine did in this case. What you enter is the part of the fake hostname before the domain name.
-Josh’s domain name is occams.info. The two fake hostnames are ns1.box.occams.info and ns2.box.occams.info, but his registar asks him to enter them with “.occams.info” omitted leaving just ns1.box and ns2.box.
Josh’s domain name is occams.info. The two fake hostnames are ns1.box.occams.info and ns2.box.occams.info, but his registrar asks him to enter them with “.occams.info” omitted leaving just ns1.box and ns2.box.
If your Mail-in-a-Box is handling mail for multiple domains, you only set these hostnames once.
+If your Mail-in-a-Box is handling mail for multiple domains, you will still only set these hostnames once.
You will usually be turning off the registrar’s provided nameservers and turning on custom servers. This is usually not found in the domain name’s DNS control panel. You will be disabling that control panel.
-Here’s what that looks like:
+Here’s what that looks like in my registrar:
@@ -321,7 +321,7 @@ cd mailinabox
This command will help you add and remove email accounts and email aliases (forwarders).
-You may add email addresses on other domain names. If you do, you will need to set the nameservers for those domains in the domain name registar configuration too, as described above.
+You may add email addresses on other domain names. If you do, you will need to set the nameservers for those domains in the domain name registrar configuration too, as described above.