Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails

["Duncan McDonald" <duncan_mcdonald@ieee.org>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Kemp" <skx@debian.org>
To: "debian list" <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 11:47 PM
Subject: Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails


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>  "no server error", and the fact that you later say you see nothing
> in your exim4 logs make me wonder if you've setup MX records for your
> domain to point to the IP address of your server?
>
> Steve
> --

Hi Steve,

Thanks for the reply.

As I said I'm fairly new to system administration so I'm not sure what an MX 
record is.

I do know that the administration of my domain name is handled by my ISP 
(bigpond.com) and they are the ones that redirect traffic from my domain to 
my IP address. This seems to work for SSH and HTTP traffic but not email.

I'm guessing that they are redirecting my email to their network and they 
are rejecting the messages because Bigpond's mail servers would have no 
record of my local email users. Does this sound possible?

   -Duncan