RE: [cobalt-users] Raq3 : SMTP Error 554 rewrite: excessive recursion

["Paul Shuttleworth" <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Hi all,
>
> I got a Raq3 with 2 Virtual Sites on the same IP.
> I want to use the Mailservice for both Sites too.
>
> The first Domain: eternalflames.de is working just fine,
> but I've added the second one now : nsa-clanpage.com and I
> can't send emails from this account or send to it.
>
> I always get this error:
>
> Failed to deliver to 'hammel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
> SMTP module(domain nsa-clanpage.com) reports:
> host mail.nsa-clanpage.com says:
> 554 rewrite: excessive recursion (max 50), ruleset 3
>
>
> I've done a bit of research, but didn't find anything in the
> Sun Support Forum nor in the Knowledge Base. So I found this list
> and saw that some other people had the same error. They all
> had some kind of DNS misconfiguration. But I looked at the
> zonefile for the domain nsa-clanpage.com and it all seems correct.
>
> One "IN A" record for mail.nsa-clanpage.com pointing to 195.143.162.26
> and one MX record for mail
>
> So I don't know what else could be the problem, is it maybe because you
> can't run
> 2 Mailserver on one IP ? Is it because there is only one reverse
> record for
> this IP ?

	There should only be one reverse record per IP address (not virtual host).

>
> Thanks in advance, I hope to get this working soon
>
> regards,
>
> Tobias Appel

Ran it through dnsreport.com

WARNING: One or more of your MX records did not return an A record; most
likely, they have a CNAME. CNAMEs are prohibited in MX records, according to
RFC974, RFC1034 3.6.2, RFC1912 2.4, and RFC2181 10.3. The problem MX records
are:
mail.nsa-clanpage.com.->nsa-clanpage.com.->195.143.162.26

WARNING: One or more of your mailservers claims to be a host other than what
it really is (the SMTP greeting should be a 3-digit code, followed by a
space or a dash, then the host name). This probably won't cause any harm,
but is a technical violation of RFC821 4.3.

mail.nsa-clanpage.com claims to be host www.eternalflames.de

If you are using CNAMES then dont!!!
Set up A records instead - CNAMES are EVIL!!!!

Check out http://pkgmaster.com/howto/cobalt_dns_howto.shtml

Paul.