On Tue, 2 Dec 1997, Kevin Traas wrote: > If you've got a suggestion, I'd love to hear it.
Okay, first suggestion is to turn off rich text or HTML email in your mail client. Email does NOT have pretty colors or centering and I usually just delete any message I see which looks like a webpage. > I've just had a client contact me. Their getting the following in > /var/log/messages: > > Dec 2 12:47:16 inetgw named[140]: "axionet.com IN MX" points to a CNAME > (mail.axionet.com) > Dec 2 12:47:16 inetgw named[140]: "axionet.com IN MX" points to a CNAME > (smtp.axionet.com) > > Brief info on their system config. It's a diald device for their > internal LAN. fetchmail retrieves from a multi-drop box and delivers > locally. named is running locally for spoof internal DNS config and to > forward all external to ISP nameserver. > > All's been working fine for months. They say nothing's changed. If mail.axionet.com and/or smtp.axionet.com are CNAME records, you need to point the MX to the A record they point to (or change the CNAME to an A). The DNS specs state that a CNAME is an illegal target for an MX record, because it generates possibilites for mail loops. Most MTAs follow CNAMES anyway, but named is perfectly correct in complaining. -- Scott K. Ellis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.gate.net/~storm/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .