El mar, 06-09-2005 a las 00:12 +0200, Philipp Wagner escribió:
> > ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> > ;subdomain.domainA.com.         IN      MX
> > ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> > subdomain.domainA.com. 75256   IN      CNAME   mail.domainB.com.
> "CNAME record usage is a bit controversial. But it's safe to follow the
> rule that a MX, CNAME or SOA record should never refer to a CNAME
> record, they should only refer to something with an A record (...)"
> 
> So I suggest you change your DNS setup and see if the problem goes away.

It's not our DNS the one that's wrong, but that of a company we're
trying to send a mail to. I've already talked with them a couple of
times over the phone and am still trying to convince them that their DNS
configuration is not right and that they should fix it, but trying to
convince another company that they're doing something wrong is not
always easy... Incidentally, we're on the same city just a couple of
blocks away, I'm starting to think maybe I should go there and fix their
DNS for them. :-/

The point is that, even if this DNS setup is wrong, other mail servers
(google, hotmail, yahoo, and many others) deal with it without problems
and send the mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], while qmail changes the original
domain (domainA) for the one the CNAME is pointing to (domainB) and the
delivery fails because the user [EMAIL PROTECTED] doesn't exist.

Don't get me wrong: I know that qmail is not at fault here but this ill
DNS configuration. I just find it odd that every server out there but
qmail seems to handle this DNS setup right.

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