tl;dr: A domain (kidreviewz.com) has a separate mail server (mail.kidreviewz.com). I can send mail to i...@kidreviewz.com without error, but MailChimp insists that email to the domain bounces. Is something misconfigured on my end?
Details: My nephew's domain, kidreviewz.com, is hosted on a Linode server, 45.79.68.11. Email for the domain is handled by a different server, mail.kidreviewz.com (72.29.78.191). This setup seems to work: I can send email from anyplace to i...@kidreviewz.com and it arrives at the right destination. Here's the problem: My nephew wants to run an email announcement list on MailChimp so the outgoing email address appears as i...@kidreviewz.com. MailChimp of course needs to verify that he owns that address, so they must send a "verification message" to it. Within 2 seconds of sending, MailChimp reports failure: "We're having some trouble delivering to i...@kidreviewz.com. Looks like the verification email might've bounced." Rather than blame MailChimp, I'd rather blame me. Did I overlook something in the DNS (or other) setup for kidreviewz.com? I am no DNS expert. Here's some output from dig: $ dig kidreviewz.com ; <<>> DiG 9.10.3-P4-Ubuntu <<>> kidreviewz.com ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 52057 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 3 ;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION: ; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4096 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;kidreviewz.com. IN A ;; ANSWER SECTION: kidreviewz.com. 7931 IN A 45.79.68.11 ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: kidreviewz.com. 79931 IN NS ns1036.dizinc.com. kidreviewz.com. 79931 IN NS ns1037.dizinc.com. ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION: ns1036.dizinc.com. 7630 IN A 72.29.78.192 ns1037.dizinc.com. 7630 IN A 72.29.78.193 ;; Query time: 1 msec ;; SERVER: 127.0.1.1#53(127.0.1.1) ;; WHEN: Fri Apr 05 16:43:01 EDT 2019 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 140 $ dig -t mx kidreviewz.com ; <<>> DiG 9.10.3-P4-Ubuntu <<>> -t mx kidreviewz.com ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 4150 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 4 ;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION: ; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4096 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;kidreviewz.com. IN MX ;; ANSWER SECTION: kidreviewz.com. 8380 IN MX 0 mail.kidreviewz.com. ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: kidreviewz.com. 79914 IN NS ns1036.dizinc.com. kidreviewz.com. 79914 IN NS ns1037.dizinc.com. ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION: mail.kidreviewz.com. 14095 IN A 72.29.78.191 ns1036.dizinc.com. 7613 IN A 72.29.78.192 ns1037.dizinc.com. 7613 IN A 72.29.78.193 ;; Query time: 1 msec ;; SERVER: 127.0.1.1#53(127.0.1.1) ;; WHEN: Fri Apr 05 16:43:18 EDT 2019 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 161 Thank you very much for any insights. -- Dan Barrett dbarr...@blazemonger.com _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
