Re: [cobalt-users] Qube2 DNS and Mail settings

[Mat Kovach <mkovach@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Feb 20, 2000 at 11:05:28AM -0600, Bob Kirk wrote:
: Arrrgh.  I am going crazy over this.

I went crazy several years ago and decieded staying in that state was 
much better :)
 
: My Qube has been up for one week and I have had to wait on my ISP and
: InterNic to populate my domain and IP address to the known world, and I
: still cannot send or receive mail from the Qube.  Now I realize that after
: the changes appear to be populated that the continuing problems are mine.

The Qube's using sendmail (http://www.sendmail.org) to provide SMTP services.
I strongly recommend checking out their site for info.  If you understand
exactly what sendmail does and expects, you'll make more sense out of the
error messages you are getting.
 
: Here is a brief status of two settings (Email services and DNS).
: 
: EMail -
: Delivery Frequency is Immediate
: Retrieval has no settings
: Advanced relay is set to machine.xyz.com and xyz.com (not really xyz, my
: domain and machine names are here)
: 
: DNS
: xyz.com > 192.168.1.1
: www.xyz.com > 192.168.1.1
: 192.168.1.1 > xyz.com
: xyz.com - very high - machine.xyz.com
: 
: Ok so here is what happens I can get to my Web page either from my ADSL
: connection (what the Qube is attached to) and from a dial up account
: (Earthlink), so no Web problems, just email

So we can assume your ISP provider is allowing port 25 (the port SMTP mail
connects to your machine on through), good.
 
: Email from both accounts I get a message when I try to send TO the Qube
: hosted domain, the message states, that it could not be sent because, one of
: the recipients was rejected by the server no relaying allowed SMTP server
: (my IP address)

Or you trying to recieve mail on the Qube or relay it.  If have the mail 
accepted by the qube you have to make sure the domain name is 
/etc/sendmail.cw
 
: When I try to send mail FROM the Qube it states 550 me@xxxxxxx host unknown
: (nameserver xyz.com - no data known)

Sendmail is saying that it can not find your domain name, hmm..

Make sure things are setup correctly in /etc/hosts.

I might need more info to help you out, if you don't want your domain and
ip address known, contact me privately and I'll try to help you further.
 
: 
: Any thoughts, guidance, medication, assistance will be appreciated.

Beer, the solution and cause of all life's problems.

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Mat Kovach                                      mkovach@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cleveland Linux User Group                       http://cleveland.lug.net