ok well xyz was just an expression of the problem, the particular domain I
am using to test IMAIL is satachi.co.uk,
At 04:29 PM 9/24/99 -0400, you wrote:
>Do an Nslookup on mail.xyz.co.uk and make sure that it points to the IP
>address on your server as well.
>
>I checked mail.xyz.co.uk and found no records in DNS. So if that is your
>real machine + domain name than your ISP is doing something wrong, i.e., you
>can see find the domain name on your network from your DNS server, but I
>cannot see it from mine on a different network with my DNS server. This
>information should be available to everyone on the internet.
>
>If you are sending your test messages from a different netowrk and DNS
>server than you probably are not finding the server in DNS either.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Russ Michaels
>Sent: Friday, September 24, 1999 1:56 PM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] mail never arrives.
>
>
>ok i checked this and the result was exchanger = mail.xyz.co.uk
>so do i just set this as the virtual host name mail.xyz.co.uk
>with alias of xyz.co.uk
>do i not need to have any other host setup apart from this virtual one.???
>
>At 12:11 PM 9/24/99 -0400, you wrote:
> >Sounds like a DNS problem. You need to have your ISP setup DNS records for
> >both your host and virtual host, if you have not done so. You can use the
> >nslookup command to see if they have setup your records
> >
> >from a command line type: nslookup
> >from the nslookup prompt type: set type=mx
> >from the nslookup prompt type: xyz.co.uk
> >
> >you should get back something that looks like:
> >
> >xyz.co.uk mx preference = 10, mail exchanger = machine1.xyz.co.uk
> >
> >
> >This record tells people on the internet what host should recieve mail for
> >your domain.
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Russ Michaels
> >Sent: Friday, September 24, 1999 11:51 AM
> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >Subject: [IMail Forum] mail never arrives.
> >
> >
> >OK I need some help setting up IMAIL here.
> >Please bear in mind this is my first time adminsitering a live server as I
> >am a developer and usually just have a development server, and first time
> >period setting up any sort of mailserver.
> >I do not have a DNS, my server is co-located so DNS and MX records are done
> >on my behalf but not by me.
> >
> >OK to keep things simple
> >lets say my machine is called MACHINE1
> >my main domain is abc.com which has the IP of the server.
> >I also have 2 other IP setup in TCP/IP which are assigned to domains in
>IIS.
> >
> >I have setup a default host of machine1.abc.com
> >with a virtual host of machine1.xyz.co.uk (NO IP for this one)
> >I have added 1 account to this virtual host.
> >
> >Now I can login and check mail, I can send mail to this account, but the
> >mail never arrives, it also doesn't go to the root either. I can also send
> >mail using the IMAIL client from the server, and these mails will appear
>OK.
> >What am I missing.
> >Have I set up the hostnames correctly?? do I maybe need to use the domain
> >of the DNS that my server exists on ratehr than my own domain name....
> >
> >help
> >
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> >
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> >
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