Re: [cobalt-users] [RaQ4r] MX problem

[David Lucas <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 08:24 AM 4/16/2002, you wrote:
> Does anyone know what kind of problem this error relates to? I have been
> trying to figure it out for the past couple of days and cannot. I have
> deleted and re-entered DNS for the domain, which is setup just like many
> other working domains. When I send mail to a user@domain on the actual mail
> server, the mail is delivered. But when I try from the DNS server, or any
> other server, this is the response (from the mailllog on the mail server):
>
>    ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> 554 5.0.0 MX list for domain.com. points back to home.site.fqdn 554 5.3.5
> <user@xxxxxxxxxx>... Local configuration error
>
> I have 3 'A' records (domain, www.domain, and mail.domain), with two MX
> records (domain to mail.domain and www.domain to mail.domain). The site is
> setup with both domain and www.domain in the Email Aliases. Like I said,
> just like many others on the box.
>
> --

Personally, I think you are over engineering this.
You don't really give us enough detail. You use "the site", which site.
If you have a Raq4, I would set it up as
host:           www
domain: domain.com
alias           domain.com
email alias     domain.com

I would set up the mx as domain.com to domain.com
some are now setting up www.domain.com to domain.com

mail.domain.com would be an entirely different virtual site, could even be 
on a different computer as far as the internet is concerned.  Have you 
actually set up the site mail.domain.com that you have listed?  and users 
in it?  Otherwise they are only in domain.com.