Re: [cobalt-users] Returned mail: Local configuration error

[Patrick Béart <patrick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I have 2 RaQ2's running and they do email fine.
>
> I just got a RaQ3 and it will send mail but not receive it. I can browse to
> the base site on it, ping it both with www and without but it will not
> receive mail.
>
> the sendmail.cw file is correct. Accept email for domain is on. the MX
> record is correct.
>
> Still nothing.
>
> Any ideas


	Well, I got the same (exact 553) error that Alonso got, 
yesterday. I had just setup a virtual account for a new client. 
Matched the DNS on the Cobalt box with the current setup on the 
current/older account. The client suddenly couldn't get any mail. All 
Email was bouncing.
	Turns out that two things were going on:
1. The company (host) who was hosting the DNS records, prior to our 
setting ours up, deleted all traces of the DNS and configuration 
settings as soon as NSI modified the domain name records - and well 
ahead of the 48+ hours that this sort of change takes to "percolate" 
throughout the Internet!

2. The Cobalt (Raq3) box needed to have the "Save Changes" buttons 
clicked again, for both DNS and Mail.

	Once both "Changes" buttons were clicked again - to kind of 
"kick start" the processes - then things cleared out very nicely.
	FWIW, HTH


Patrick Beart

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> At 11:03 PM 07/18/2000 +0200, you wrote:
> > On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, Alonso Garcia wrote:
> >
> > >  Please help me with this error, to the best of my knowledge DNS records are
> > >  OK
> > >
> > >  >
> > >  >    ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
> > >  > <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >  >
> > >  >    ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> > >  > 553 www.compurentjuarez.com. config error: mail loops back to me (MX
> > >  problem?)
> > >  > 554 <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>... Local configuration error
>  >> >
>  >
> > The mx record for compurentjuarez.com points to www.compurentjuarez.com,
> > this is ok. It's only your MTA (in this case sendmail) that doesn't know
> > that compurentjuarez.com is a local domain and that it should accept mail
> > for it. Maybe you forgot to turn on 'accept mail for domain' in the
> > admin interface. The easiest way to fix this though, is adding
> > compurentjuarez.com to /etc/sendmail.cw (and you might need to map
>  >compurentjuarez.com to www.compurentjuarez.com in your virtual usertable).
> >

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