On Thu, Jan 06, 2000 at 11:23:39PM -0500, Kurt R. Hoehn wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I seem to be having an erratic email system. I get email from some locations
>and not from others. I can send out and the internal work fine.
>
> Case One: my friend sent me an email from aol and it arrived.
> then he sent another and it was returned
>
> I responded to his first email and he recieved it
> he forwarded the email back to me and I got it again.
> ????????'
>
>
> Case Two: This is the header from another friend that an email was kicked back
> Final-Recipient: RFC822; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Action: failed
> Status: 5.1.2
> Remote-MTA: DNS; mail.etechstudios.com.etechstudios.com
> Last-Attempt-Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 21:49:02 -0500
Your DNS is screwed up. You're missing a '.' after mail.etechstudios.com in
your MX record, so etechstudios.com is being appended to your MX record.
[cjohnson@mail cjohnson]$ dig etechstudios.com mx
; <<>> DiG 2.2 <<>> etechstudios.com mx
;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
;; got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 6
;; flags: qr rd ra; Ques: 1, Ans: 2, Auth: 0, Addit: 0
;; QUESTIONS:
;; etechstudios.com, type = MX, class = IN
;; ANSWERS:
etechstudios.com. 0 MX 100 dns2.leading.net.
etechstudios.com. 0 MX 10 mail.etechstudios.com.etechstudios.com.
Chris
