Re: [cobalt-users] MX problem ?

[Wouter van Reeven <wreeven@xxxxxxx>]

Hi,


or refer to


http://pkg.nl.cobalt.com/howto/cobalt_dns_howto.html



Kind regards,



> 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...
> >
> 
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