Fixed!! Re:Mail routing problem...

Madison Kelly linux-5ZoueyuiTZhBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org
Mon Feb 23 21:34:10 UTC 2004


> On February 19, 2004 11:16 am, Madison Kelly wrote:
>
>> Sendmail). When I first wrote the DNS record to 'thelinuxexperience.com'
>> I set 'mail.alteeve.com' as the first destination (my bad) and
>> 'mail.thelinuxexperience.com' as the secondary mail server. A few days I
>> fixed that and made 'mail.thelinuxexperience.com' the only mail server
>> for TLE.
>
> I'm not sure what you mean by saying that mail.alteeve.com was a problem,
> as
> long as mail.alteeve.com resolves to the correct A record the name is
> irrelevant.
>
> Here is one problem:
>
>     fraser-74b65gqZ7FE at public.gmane.org% host -t mx thelinuxexperience.com
>     thelinuxexperience.com  MX      10 mail.thelinuxexperience.com
>     !!! thelinuxexperience.com MX host mail.thelinuxexperience.com is not
>     canonical
>
> MX records should points to hosts that are A records, not CNAMEs.
>
>
>>     ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
>> <mkelly-pgLVY6gkuiiyKdaMMURGoWiJhflN2719 at public.gmane.org>
>>
>>     ----- Transcript of session follows -----
>> 554 5.0.0 MX list for thelinuxexperience.com. points back to alteeve.com
>> 554 5.3.5 Local configuration error
>
> It's possible that the CNAME problem is enough to cause this but I'm not
> sure.
> Have you made your mailserver aware that it is the mailserver for the new
> domain.  IIRC, sendmail wants you to list your local domains in a file
> somewhere (look for sendmail.cw or local-host-names or something).


  The problem ended up being a combination of the CNAME DNS records and
missing the domain for TLE in the sendmail.cf (and thus sendmail.mc)
files. All fixed and working great now, Thanks very much!!

Madison


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