Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1999 11:20:56 -0500 (EST) From: Jerry Raynor <jerryr@ComCAT.COM> To: cjclark@home.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: not getting mail Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.02A.9904011117090.24208-100000@uw> In-Reply-To: <199904010527.AAA05803@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
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OK... your correct there is no mx record. I don't know what happened to it! honestly! :) This may sound stuppid but I don't know how to create one. I guess when I orig. setup the machine I did it? Can anyone help? Thanks! On Thu, 1 Apr 1999, Crist J. Clark wrote: > Jerry Raynor wrote, > > Nothing has changed that pertains to mail, nothin I know of! I can telnet > > to port 25, I don't know what to do at that point but I get telnet to that > > port from the outside. > > You should get something like, > > $ telnet localhost 25 > Trying 127.0.0.1... > Connected to localhost. > Escape character is '^]'. > 220 mymachine.mydomain.com ESMTP Sendmail 8.8.8/8.8.8; Thu, 1 Apr 1999 00:24:32 -0500 (EST) > > This just shows sendmail is listening for connections. If you are not > getting mail, and not getting errors, most likely, no mail > connections are ever finding their way to your machine. > > > I also have gotten this error message returned > > when trying to deliver to my server from the outside. Although this > > message may say other wise I don't think its a DNS issue. All my webs are > > up... Thanks for your help. > > > > ----- Transcript of session follows ----- > > <user@mydomain.com>... Deferred: Name server: mydomain.com.: host name > > lookup failure > > Message could not be delivered for 3 days > > Message will be deleted from queue > > Why do you not think it is a DNS issue? That's exactly what the error > looks like. I mean, 'host name lookup failure?' What does the MX > record for your domain say? > -- > Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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