Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 13:38:54 -0800 (PST) From: "Michael J. Madio" <mmadio@yahoo.com> To: Michael Doyle <relyod@indigo.ie>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Getting Mail Message-ID: <19980212213854.24788.rocketmail@send1b.yahoomail.com>
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Michael, The problem is not lack of DNS but misconfigured DNS. You should have two MX records for your domain, one listing your machine and the other listing your ISP. Your machine should have a lower preference number (typically 10) and the ISP should have a higher preference number (typically 20). This means that all incoming mail will try your server first becauase it has the lower preference. If it is unreachable, it will be delivered to the ISP. The ISP will then keep trying to send it to the lower preference MX (that's you!) Hope this helps, Michael ---Michael Doyle <relyod@indigo.ie> wrote: > > Hi > > I have a problem which I think MIGHT be related to the absence of > a DNS server on my server. Symptom is no incomming mail. :-) > > > Current config: > I have sendmail running, and it sends out-going mail just fine, > and sendmail.cf has a record telling it to deal with mail for the domain > the ppp.linkup script also has a line: > "!bg /bin/etrn.pl snmp.connect.ie co-operation-north.ie" > ^^^^ My ISP's Mail host > ^^^^ my domain name > > However, no mail seems to be arriving, > and when I send mail using an a/c outside the domain (this a/c) > the mail doesn't bounce, but it never arrives. > > Doing an NSLOOKUP with type set to MX gives my ISP's mailhost > as the MX host for my email domain. (Correct, I hope) > [to be pedantic, it reports "ook.connect.ie" is the MX host, > smtp.connect.ie is an alias] > > How do I > (1) check if the mail is ever getting as far as the ISP's mail host ? > (2) if it is, how do I get it to my server ? > <><=====================================================><> > Michael Doyle phone: +353-1-661-0588 > Network Administrator http://indigo.ie/~coopnth/ > Co-Operation North > E-mail: relyod@co-operation-north.ie (0ffice) > relyod@indigo.ie (Personal) > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe questions" in the body of the message > == Michael J. Madio Senior Technical Engineer POYA Computers _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe questions" in the body of the message
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