At 10:40 AM -0600 2/20/02, Joe Laffey imposed structure on a stream of electrons, yielding: >On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Bill Cole wrote: >> >> Your pubns2 tells me there is an A record but no MX record for >> mail.fkphoto.com. > >But I don't need that unless I want [EMAIL PROTECTED] (which I don't). >Correct?
Absolutely correct. >> >I think this must be some other problem. Other mailservers can send mail >> >to that domain fine. It is only that one server that is reporting the >> >error. Why would the error get reported at the SMTP level anyway? The >> >foreign mailserver has obviously found my relay if it is connecting to it! >> >> It looks like this may be a non-problem and you have to look >> elsewhere. I think SIMS will report that error whenever there is no >> MX for the domain part of incoming mail, even though it might proceed >> to find and use an A record. Was mail actually rejected? >> > >Well it never went through. It did not say it was rejected. If this continues to be a problem, you may want to bump SMTP logging up all the way and see what is actually being said between the machines. > >> >> Note that those lines will have no effect on mail aimed at >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] addresses. The log line implied to me that >> someone was trying to send mail to such an address. > >I bet this is the case. It seems the logical explanation. SIMS would have proceeded to find the A record, hence verifying the return path, but would have seen the mail as non-local unless you have router lines making mail.fkphoto.com look local to it. The rejection should have been a 57x code scolding the sender about relaying. -- Bill Cole [EMAIL PROTECTED] ############################################################# This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Send administrative queries to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
