gene Campbell wrote:
>
> I just tried this howto. It is the best one yet for helping understand
> this system. But, I still can't get smtp to work. That is if I send from
> another place to my system with qmail, it is bouced back. I get this
>
> ___
> Hi. This is the qmail-send program at mail.surfup.com.
> I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses.
> This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.
>
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Sorry. Although I'm listed as a best-preference MX or A for that host,
> it isn't in my control/locals file, so I don't treat it as local. (#5.4.6)
> ---
>
> I feel like I'm getting somewhere with this. But, I have no idea how I'm
> going to get POP mail working.
>
> - gene
>
> At 1:06 AM -0400 6/19/99, Dale Miracle wrote:
> >> Kevin King wrote:
> >>
> >> I recently got my RH Linux box working wtith Qmail (with a huge amount
> >> of help from Dave Sill). When I installed Qmail setup the following
> >> files as such:
> >>
> >
> >I found this web site tonight that might help some people. I am also
> >trying to setup qmail my self because sendmail's virtual mail setup is
> >EVIL..I hate m4 and makemap <shudder>. Any how here is the link
> >http://www.flounder.net/qmail/qmail-howto.html
> >
> >I found it while searching through many howto's and web pages trying to
> >make sense of the hundreds of interpretations of the qmail doc's. I
> >read it all the way through and it sounds pretty good...to bad I found
> >it at 1 am :( I have been staring at this monitor of mine for over 3
> >hours now. I think I am just going to remove what I have and install
> >qmail fresh tomorrow.
> >I hope this help's, I know it made more sense to me...
> > Later,
> >--
> >
> >Dale Miracle
> > System Administrator
> > Teoi Net
I read in one the howto's tonight that you need to put all systems in
your net that do your mx (mail exchange) in fqdn (fully qualified domain
name) format in the control/locals file. An example of fqdn is,
demon-spawn.teoi.net .
If you can help it do not use cname's as your mx records in your dns.
(ignore the following if you already know ;) ) cnames are conical or
alias names for A records in dns. A records are the real names of
machine, A records combined with your domain name gives you your fqdn.
MX is mail exchanger (mail server). My mail server is
demon-spawn.teoi.net it has a cname of smtp.teoi.net . The mx record
uses demon-spawn.teoi.net not smtp.teoi.net . You can get away with
using cnames but some systems will not work using that.
I sent a message to your system and looked at the message transcript.
(after checking your dns if needed) make sure your domain name is in
defaulthost, defaultdomain, plusdomains and your mail server's fqdn in
locals, me, rcphosts . I had qmail working tonight with pine (didn't
have pop setup for qmail) with this config. Any questions just ask.
Later,
--
Dale Miracle
System Administrator
Teoi Net
