[Techtalk] kindergarten mail server question

[Carla Schroder]

Hey gang, 

I've always been sheltered from the nasty connectivity parts of setting up a 
mailserver- well it's time to chuck the training wheels. (my DNS guru has 
moved to New Mexico, the ratfink.) 

Example: trusty Postfix server is all set up and configured at 
carlas.domain.com, ready to start work moving mail over the Internet. Well 
somewhere out there are DNS and MX thingies that have to be configured, 
right? Assume I can log into wherever to do all this. (in this case, my 
domain name registrar provides user DNS management.) 

I've been studying all kinds of docs, and I have a feeling there's a few 
simple steps buried in the masses of verbiage somewhere. Thanks for any 
links or help. 

Carla