Re: Problem on receiving mails
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 19:03:13 +0800, Stephen Liu (satimis@yahoo.com) wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
>
> Debian Etch
> Postfix
> Courier
> MySQL
>
>
> The mail server can send mails via telnet but unable to receive mails.
> All mails sent to satimis@satimis.com were rejected.
bob@trantor:~$ host satimis.com
satimis.com has address 220.232.213.178
satimis.com mail is handled by 10 xen01.satimis.com.
satimis.com mail is handled by 20 smtp.secureserver.net.
satimis.com mail is handled by 30 mailstore1.secureserver.net.
bob@trantor:~$ host xen01.satimis.com
xen01.satimis.com has address 220.232.213.178
bob@trantor:~$ host mail.satimis.com
Host mail.satimis.com not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
> $ tail /var/log/mail.log
[...]
> Oct 16 09:16:15 xen01 postfix/smtp[1656]: 51DD82055B:
> to=<satimis@satimis.com>, relay=none, delay=1.1,
> delays=1.1/0.01/0.05/0, dsn=5.4.4, status=bounced (Host or domain name
> not found. Name service error for name=mail.satimis.com type=A: Host
> not found)
It looks like an incorrect MX is being used: mail.satimis.com, which
appears not to exist, rather than xen01.satimis.com
Have you recently changed the MX records and perhaps the changes had not
fully propagated?
--
Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK.
Registered user #445000 with the Linux Counter - http://counter.li.org/
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