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Date:      Thu, 31 May 2001 14:10:10 -0500
From:      Joe Guetler <joe@axiomadvertising.com>
To:        Jim Freeze <jim@freeze.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: sendmail novice needs help
Message-ID:  <3B169712.E9DBC956@axiomadvertising.com>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.32.0105311308220.37690-100000@www.stelesys.com>

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	If I remeber correctly (and someone will hopefully correct me if I
don't), you shouldn't use a CNAME reference in a MX record.  Point the
MX record to something with an actual IN A entry.

Joe

Jim Freeze wrote:
> 
> Hi:
> 
> I am trying to setup email for a domain, but am not having much luck.
> 
> I just setup the domain eadsa.com and configured the zone
> file. However, I do not know if I set the MX records
> correctly. Could someone inspect this zone file:
> 
> eadsa.com.  IN  NS ns1.granitecanyon.com.
> eadsa.com.  IN  NS ns2.granitecanyon.com.
> 
> eadsa.com.             IN  RP jim.freeze.org. jim.eadsa.com.  ; EXTREF
> jim.freeze.org.        IN  TXT #Jim Freeze,    NIC handle: JF2009#    ;
> EXTREF
> 
> localhost.eadsa.com.   IN  A  127.0.0.1
> eadsa.com.             IN  A  24.9.218.175
> www.eadsa.com.         IN  CNAME eadsa.com.
> mail.eadsa.com.        IN  CNAME eadsa.com.
> 
> ;                      IN  MX  10  mail.eadsa.com.  ; EXTREF
> eadsa.com.             IN  MX  10  mail.eadsa.com.
> *.eadsa.com.           IN  MX  100  mail.eadsa.com. ; GLOBALOK
> 
> Also, I tried to follow the FreeBSD handbook by adding
> eadsa.com to /etc/sendmail.cw.
> After restarting sendmail, I get this error message that
> mail.eadsa.com loops back to itself:
> 
> May 31 13:10:38 eeyore1 sendmail[39038]: NAA39033: SYSERR(root):
> mail.eadsa.com. config error: mail loops back to me (MX problem?)
> 
> Brother, can you spare a clue?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> =========================================================
> Jim Freeze
> jim@freeze.org
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