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Chapter 2 Mail Service Setup 21
Using Mail Service Tools
Mac OS X Server provides two primary applications and one primary command-line
tool to help you set up and manage Mail service:
 Server Admin: Use to start, stop, congure, maintain, and monitor Mail service when
you install Mac OS X Server.
 Workgroup Manager: Use to create user accounts for mail users and congure each
user’s mail options.
 serveradmin: Use to manage Mail service from the command-line remotely via ssh
or locally through the Terminal application. See “Viewing Mail Service Settings from
the Command Line” on page 26 and Introduction to Command-Line Administration.
Conguring DNS for Mail Service
Conguring DNS for Mail service entails enabling MX records with your DNS server.
If you have an ISP that provides DNS service, contact the ISP so they can enable your
MX records.
To enable MX records:
Follow these steps if you provide your own DNS service using Mac OS X Server.
1 In Server Admin, choose a server, then select DNS.
2 Click the Zones button in the toolbar.
3 Select the zone that the MX record will be added to.
If there are no zones, create one. If the mail server does not have a machine record (A),
add one. For more information, see Network Services Administration.
4 Click the + button in the Mail Exchangers list.
5 Enter the mail server’s hostname.
6 Set a mail server precedence number.
Mail servers try to deliver mail at lower numbered mail servers rst.
7 Click OK to Save.
To set up multiple servers for redundancy, add MX records with dierent precedence
numbers.