Re: [cobalt-users] Mail help on RAQ 4

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

flash22@xxxxxxx wrote:

> Perhaps i should have made that a seperate sentence, sigh, the 'loop' is
> indicated by 'excessive recursion' during canonification ;P

Perhaps I should have read the original post more carefully.  Sorry
about that.

> But note that this machine isn't supposed to be getting the mail in the
> first place, he has MX records pointing to pcnet1.pcnet.com and
> mail.maxsolns.com, presumably he intends these machines to handle that
> mail, the fact that the reporting MTA is 'chi...' tells me right there
> that the wrong machine got the mail, and it got it because the domain is a
> cname to another domain, so the MX records don't belong there...They were
> in fact, ignored by the client...

So, why could the wrong machine get the mail?  Has to be a DNS problem,
right?

> I'd guess 'chi' has no clue what it's supposed to do with the mail and is
> doing something typicaly stupid like trying to add 'www' to the domain in
> the RCPT field hoping in vain that it eventually resolves to the name of
> an interface it is supposed to accept mail on ;p [I really love that
> cobalt 'feature', but we won't go there']

You're right of course.  I can explain it well, but I don't have much
luck defending it <smile>.

> as to the his nameserver, it's an improvment, when i looked before, there
> was only 1 NS record for the domain, now he seems to have 3, 2 of which
> are duplicates ;P
> 
> I think he needs to sit down and review his dns ;)

I agree.  Thanks for clarifying.

Jeff
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