From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 17 13:49:21 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AB7437B401 for ; Tue, 17 Sep 2002 13:49:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pacific.boldfish.com (mail.boldfish.com [65.206.203.11]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1748643E8A for ; Tue, 17 Sep 2002 13:49:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dave@boldfish.com) Received: from pacific.boldfish.com (IDENT:dave@pacific.boldfish.com [192.168.0.7]) by pacific.boldfish.com (8.11.6/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g8HKn9k11370; Tue, 17 Sep 2002 13:49:09 -0700 Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 13:49:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Dave Young To: Gary D Kline Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: MX list for <> points back to <> In-Reply-To: <200209172040.g8HKe2QS001739@tao.thought.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG your mail server doesn't know what domain(s) it's supposed to accept mail for, but the MX record says "it's" the one. Look at /etc/mail/local-host-names or the like... On Tue, 17 Sep 2002, Gary D Kline wrote: > > > Is this a bug in my /etc/mail file, my permissions, or > somewhere else? > > Mail seems to work both outgoing and incomin, but if I > send mail outside and cc: kline@thought.org, it bounces > with the old "MX list for" error. If I cc: kline or > cc:kline@tao.thought.org, no problem. > > Does anybody know why my mail (to _me_) is bouncing? > > thanks for any help, > > gary > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message