From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 1 8:26: 1 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from uz.ComCAT.COM (uz.ComCAT.COM [204.170.64.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B29814C0F for ; Thu, 1 Apr 1999 08:25:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jerryr@ComCAT.COM) Received: from uw.ComCAT.COM (uw [204.170.64.249]) by uz.ComCAT.COM (8.8.8/8.8.8/sol2/mh/19980701) with ESMTP; id LAA27969; Thu, 1 Apr 1999 11:21:03 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost by uw.ComCAT.COM (8.9.1a/8.9.1/sol2/clnt/19981012) with SMTP id LAA24480; Thu, 1 Apr 1999 11:20:58 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: uw.ComCAT.COM: jerryr owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1999 11:20:56 -0500 (EST) From: Jerry Raynor X-Sender: jerryr@uw To: cjclark@home.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: not getting mail In-Reply-To: <199904010527.AAA05803@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG OK... your correct there is no mx record. I don't know what happened to it! honestly! :) This may sound stuppid but I don't know how to create one. I guess when I orig. setup the machine I did it? Can anyone help? Thanks! On Thu, 1 Apr 1999, Crist J. Clark wrote: > Jerry Raynor wrote, > > Nothing has changed that pertains to mail, nothin I know of! I can telnet > > to port 25, I don't know what to do at that point but I get telnet to that > > port from the outside. > > You should get something like, > > $ telnet localhost 25 > Trying 127.0.0.1... > Connected to localhost. > Escape character is '^]'. > 220 mymachine.mydomain.com ESMTP Sendmail 8.8.8/8.8.8; Thu, 1 Apr 1999 00:24:32 -0500 (EST) > > This just shows sendmail is listening for connections. If you are not > getting mail, and not getting errors, most likely, no mail > connections are ever finding their way to your machine. > > > I also have gotten this error message returned > > when trying to deliver to my server from the outside. Although this > > message may say other wise I don't think its a DNS issue. All my webs are > > up... Thanks for your help. > > > > ----- Transcript of session follows ----- > > ... Deferred: Name server: mydomain.com.: host name > > lookup failure > > Message could not be delivered for 3 days > > Message will be deleted from queue > > Why do you not think it is a DNS issue? That's exactly what the error > looks like. I mean, 'host name lookup failure?' What does the MX > record for your domain say? > -- > Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message