From: David Somers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> I've just started playing with Courier 0.48, and almost have a
> working system... however, I've hit a stumbling block, and I hope
> somebody can yield the answer as to where I've gone wrong.
> 
> I've tried to set up courier to do some virtual domain hosting:
> - the domain I want to handle mail for is omz13.com
> - I've added omz13.com to /etc/courier/hosteddomains
> - I've added a few sample users using userdb
> - I created the maildir files for my sample users

Did you also add omz13.com to /etc/courier/esmtpacceptmailfor?

> When I am on the server itself, sending some test mail works 
> just fine:

(snip)

> The problem happens when I try to send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> from another computer:
> 
> garamond # sendmail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> from: root
> 
> sendmail: 417 DNS lookup failure: garamond.omz13.local.  Try again
> later.
> 
> Here is the bit from the log:
> 
> Jan  4 16:06:24 caslon courieresmtpd: started,ip=[192.168.42.200]
> Jan  4 16:06:24 caslon courieresmtpd:
> error,relay=192.168.42.200,from=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: 417 DNS
> lookup failure: garamond.omz13.local.  Try again later.
> 
> I really don't understand why I'm getting that 417 error.  I've
> checked the forward and reverse zones, and all appears to be
> correct...  192.168.42.200 resolves to garamond.omz13.local and
> vice-versa.

Make sure the lookup works properly from your courier box.

 # testmxlookup garamond.omz13.local

If your courier box can't resolve the name, you need to fix your
DNS resolution.

Bowie


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