On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 20:02, Christopher Samuel wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > On Monday 03 Feb 2003 6:47 pm, Jeff Hutchinson wrote: > > 1) The MX record for the domain points to an address record for the mail > server. It must *not* point to a CNAME and it must *not* be an IP address. > > i.e. mydomain.org.au IN MX 5 mailhost.mydomain.org.au > mailhost.mydomain.org.au IN A 10.1.1.1 > > 2) Confirm that from a third party such as http://www.samspade.org/t/ > > 3) Use tcpdump (as above) to confirm incoming packets. > >Yes, I have an MX record. I can do a host -t mx mydomain.com and it returns with my mail server. Thanks for your input I will try what you suggest tomorrow.
Jeff -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
