Re: [cobalt-users] MX Records and failover servers

[Chris Bell <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 09:59 PM 23/05/2002 -0600, David Thacker wrote:
> I think you might be forgetting one important step: you need to tell
> Sendmail on your RaQ that it should relay mail for that domain.  Do so by
> going to the Email control panel, and add vdomain.com to the "Relay for the
> following Hosts/Domains" list.  Click on Save Changes, and you're off to the
> races.


Yeh no I definitely gave it a relay rule. Adding it through the control 
panel adds it to the access.db.

Then again it could just be my machine. I have a lot of similar problems 
with NS lookups, e.g. if someone tries to send mail to user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
(which doesn't resolve) it assumes it's a host name and tries to send it on 
to user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx This causes a "MX loops back to me 
error" and it bounces.

here's an example:

The original message was received at Fri, 24 May 2002 12:56:02 +1000
from admin@localhost

----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
dion@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
(reason: system config error)

----- Transcript of session follows -----
553 5.3.5 juicecreative.vom.au.blueskyhost.com. config error: mail loops 
back to me (MX problem?)
554 5.3.5 dion@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Local configuration error
Reporting-MTA: dns; www.blueskyhost.com
Arrival-Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 12:56:02 +1000

Final-Recipient: RFC822; dion@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Action: failed
Status: 5.3.5
Diagnostic-Code: SMTP; system config error
Last-Attempt-Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 12:56:03 +1000
Return-Path: <admin>
Received: (from admin@localhost)
by www.blueskyhost.com (8.10.2/8.10.2) id g4O2u2Q27321;
Fri, 24 May 2002 12:56:02 +1000
Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 12:56:02 +1000
Message-Id: <200205240256.g4O2u2Q27321@/" EUDORA="AUTOURL"www.blueskyhost.com>
To: yokrissy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
dion@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
From: yokrissy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ()
Subject: BarShow Pre-registration


It hasn't really been critical enough for me to worry about...

cb