[ubuntu-uk] Setting up mailserver

[Matthew Wild]

On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 9:10 PM, Josh Holland <jshholland at googlemail.com> wrote:
> OK, a step in the right direction. I have registered joshh.co.uk and can
> now ping my own server through the domain. I followed the tutorial
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Postfix but I can't do anything useful
> like send or receive mail. Obviously this is something of a problem. I
> appreciate the time you spend helping this poor person completely new to
> servers.

It appears to be a DNS issue. The TTL of the old records was 24 hours,
which means it could take up to that long for everyone to successfully
locate your server. Just be patient, and try it again in the morning
:)

Matthew.