Re: [cobalt-users] email problems (seems I'm not alone)

["H.P. Stroebel" <hpstr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jeremiah Ryan schrieb:
> 
>  Dear List users,
> 
>  I have been at this problem now for a number of days. I have trawled the
> archives
>  and having found similar problems experienced by others, I thought I was
> well
>  on the way to understanding and a fix. Not so. I have also followed advice
> given
>  religiously by others.
> 
>  fyi
>  * I have applied all updates and patches to the Raq4i
>  * I have removed all virtual domains except one
>  * I have removed all virtual domain DNS entries and rebooted.
>  * I have added a new virtual domain  filling in fields such as email alias
> field with "mydomain.com"
>  * I have them entered into the email parameters and as no host/alias
> appeared there , put "mydomain.com" in
>  * Saved there and saved and restarted processes
>  (a check of email parameters shows that the host/alias field empty again)
>  * entered DNS records
>   A-Record for mydomain.com-->IP address#2
>   A-Record for www.mydomain.com-->IP Address#2
>   MX record for mydomain.com --> host.myserver.com

you don`t have an A entry for host.myserver.com ?
 
>  Problem:- can't receive email to user@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>  Problem:-can't seem to enter alias into email parameter field to solve
> above problem (disappears)

without the above A entry, sendmail cannot resolve the mail exchanger
for myserver.com.

suggestion :

A-Record :   mail.myserver.com -> IP Adress
MX Record :  MX	-> mail.myserver.com

(sounds better for your users than www etc. as hostname)

cu


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