From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Jul 10 11:12:59 1996 Return-Path: owner-doc Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA01452 for doc-outgoing; Wed, 10 Jul 1996 11:12:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay-4.mail.demon.net (relay-4.mail.demon.net [158.152.1.108]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA01444; Wed, 10 Jul 1996 11:12:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from post.demon.co.uk ([158.152.1.72]) by relay-4.mail.demon.net id af12094; 10 Jul 96 18:02 GMT Received: from jraynard.demon.co.uk ([158.152.42.77]) by relay-3.mail.demon.net id ab07599; 10 Jul 96 18:03 +0100 Received: (from fdocs@localhost) by jraynard.demon.co.uk (8.6.12/8.6.12) id KAA00997; Wed, 10 Jul 1996 10:00:50 GMT Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 10:00:50 GMT Message-Id: <199607101000.KAA00997@jraynard.demon.co.uk> From: James Raynard To: gpalmer@freebsd.org CC: doc@freebsd.org In-reply-to: <29560.836957828@palmer.demon.co.uk> (message from Gary Palmer on Wed, 10 Jul 1996 01:17:08 +0100) Subject: Re: Santiago Zapata: mx records & sendmail Sender: owner-doc@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Someone want to add an appropriate question/answer for this to the > FAQ? It's getting to be a VERY FAQ, and is definate material for the > FAQ, even after we get the mail handbook section written... Or perhaps just point them at the sendmail FAQ? Anyway, I'll put something in this evening (GMT). > P.S.Yes, I know I should probably just go write it myself and commit > it, since I have commit privs, but I've got a lot to do, and I'm > also off the air from tomorrow (for a while) ... Thanks. In the circumstances, consider yourself excused :-) > Hi: > > I am trying to setup a DNS & mail server. I would like to have e-mail > addresses like: name@my_domain. > > I am having problems configuring the mail server. DNS works OK, mail server > works OK as long as I direct messages to a specific host. > Could someone give me some hints and/or pointers ? > > I already configured the hosts file for DNS with an MX record, and I also > did some changes to the sendmail.cf file following the TCP/IP Network Admin > book from O'Reilly, however I am getting the following error: > > ----- The following addresses had delivery problems ----- > (unrecoverable error) > > ----- Transcript of session follows ----- > 554 MX list for cabonet.net.mx. points back to dns > 554 ... Local configuration error -- James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland james@jraynard.demon.co.uk http://www.freebsd.org/~jraynard/