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 > --------------------------------------------------------- > No comment at this time. > http://www.freeze.org > ========================================================= > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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