What kinda cracked out RFC specifies the format of a configuration file!!
No wonder maintaining DNS is such a pain, the lame file format is actually
specified in the RFC!
Anyways MX records point to A records & are not IP addresses & as a 'special
case' in RFC 974 MX records can also be CNAMEs...
thanks,
Mark
On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 05:47:43PM -0700, Steve Hultquist wrote:
> Mark,
>
> Did you look at RFC 1035? The error is with the way the MX is set up. The MX
> needs to have an IP address, not point to a CNAME or A record.
>
> Best regards,
> ssh
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:courier-users-
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2003 4:56 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: [courier-users] RFC 1035 unpleasantness
> >
> > Howdy,
> > Whenever I try to send an email thru courier-esmtpd via Outlook
> > Express
> > (& maybe other mail clients) esmtpd denies it with:
> >
> > Nov 25 10:25:56 [courieresmtpd]
> > error,relay=xx.xx.xx.xx,from=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: 517-Domain does not exist:
> > xxxxxx.com.
> > Nov 25 10:25:56 [courieresmtpd]
> > error,relay=xx.xx.xx.xx,from=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: 517 Invalid domain, see
> > <URL:ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc1035.txt>
> >
> > Which is very bizzarro for several reasons:
> >
> > - That domain it's complaining about is hosted by the same machine courier
> > esmptd is running on
> > - The domain is listed in /etc/hosts
> > - The domain's primary DNS server resides on the same machine as
> > courier esmtpd is running on
> > - The DNS severs listed in /etc/resolv.conf can resolve that domain name
> > no
> > problem
> > - That domain is listed in both esmtpdacceptmailfor and hosteddomains
> > - Other domains hosted by the same machine work fine
> > - Sending email from this account via locally installed squirrelmail works
> >
> > Where the monkey else does this domain need to exist for courier esmtpd
> > to allow it???????????????
> > I am requiring remote IMAP users to authenticate w/esmtpd to relay their
> > email,
> > which I don't think matters.
> > Thanks!!!
> > Mark
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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