RE: [cobalt-users] MX problem ?

[Clive Harper <CHarper@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have posted this before to this group but this might help:

Problems this procedure solves:

catchall not working
not able to send mail to user aliases "User unknown"
receiving "config error: mail loops back to me (MX problem?)"

Firstly the dns settings I use;

A - domain.com - IP
A - www.domain.com - IP with automatic reverse generation on
A - mail.domain.com - IP
MX - domain.com - mail.domain.com - high priority

Right, now to the site configuration, note this is on a RAQ4i
with all latest patches and kernel installed, I do not know
if this will work on any other RAQ's

First go to Site Management and select your site, go to Site
Settings. Make sure your Web Server Aliases field is empty
and your domain name (e.g. domain.com) is in the Email Server
Aliases field. Save Changes.

Now go to Server Management -> Control Panel -> Email Server
-> Parameters, make sure that the domain is in the Relay
List (e.g. domain.com), in the Hosts/Domain Aliases list enter
the hostname.domain address (e.g. www.domain.com). Save Changes

Hope this helps

---
Clive


> We have a user who occasionally uses mail2web.com to send/receive 
> mail. Mail2web seems to send mail out as user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx When 
> someone replies to that, sometimes - not all the time - the message 
> bounces and a Local configuration error is reported:
> 
> 553 mail.domain.com. config error: mail loops back to me (MX problem?)
> 554 <user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>... Local configuration error
> 
> 
> I have MX records pointing domain.com to mail.domain.com and also 
> www.domain.com to mail.domain.com.
> 
> Do I need to add another one pointing mail.domain.com to 
> mail.domain.com??
> 
> thanks as always in advance...
>