>How do I look up mx records?  How do you look up a records?  Cname
records?

Download http://www.samspade.org/ssw/
Or, web based: http://www.declude.com/tools/

>A record for chaseglobalservices.com
>A record for mail.chaseglobalservices.com <-- can you do this?
>MX record for chaseglobalservices.com
>MX record for mail.chaseglobalservices.com
>no cname records?

Yes, this is correct. Right now you have no A record for
mail.ChaseGlobalServices.com.

>am I missing any records?
Probably: A record for www.ChaseGlobalServices.com?

T. Bradley Dean
(800) 793-8171 Ext. 336
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Bill Kaigler
Sent: Monday, March 12, 2001 9:57 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] unknown user error


Scott,

How do I look up mx records?  How do you look up a records?  Cname
records?  I have asked the place that is hosting my server and
they have avoided the question 3 times.

Here is the domain I am having problems with and my layout.  Since
my layout is the same on all of the domains I host, I assume that
I have problems with all of them and I have just not noticed it
yet.

I have an A record on chasegloablservices.com

There is suppose to be an mx record pointing to
chaseglobalservices.com which I have set up as the official host
name through Imail.  I also have mail.chaseglobalservices.com
setup as a Host Alias through Imail.  And this is set up as a
virtual host.

I also have requested that an MX record and a CName be created
with mail.chaseglobalservices.com.  From your comments this will
not work right?

So what should the proper layout be?

A record for chaseglobalservices.com
A record for mail.chaseglobalservices.com <-- can you do this?
MX record for chaseglobalservices.com
MX record for mail.chaseglobalservices.com
no cname records?
am I missing any records?

What you have said makes more sense then anything I have heard so
far.  I would appreciate anything else you could add since it
sounds like you are pushing me in the right direction.


Thanks,
Bill Kaigler




---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Scott Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 22:40:55 -0500

>> I had the company I am hosting with make sure that the proper MX
>> records were created.  They said they always found that an MX
>> record with mail.servername.com was better then servername.com
>> and usually had less problems.
>
>Nope, they're wrong.  It's fine to have an MX record for both
mail.servername.com and servername.com.  But, if you don't have an
MX record for servername.com, you can't expect to get mail
addressed to [EMAIL PROTECTED]  If there is an A record, a mail
server might send to it.  But without an MX record, you're letting
the remote mail server decide whether or not you deserve to get
mail.
>
>If you're talking about the domain affiniscape.com, your problem
is that your MX record points to a CNAME, which won't work with
many mail servers (one RFC says it is illegal to point to a CNAME,
although I think I recall that another one makes it legal --
either way, many mail servers will choke on that).
>
>
>--
>                      -Scott
>
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