From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 19 14:56:06 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 214BA37B401 for ; Thu, 19 Jun 2003 14:56:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nightmare.dreamchaser.org (pm7-2.blackfoot.net [12.32.36.65]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2EBE43FBF for ; Thu, 19 Jun 2003 14:56:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd@dreamchaser.org) Received: from dreamchaser.org (imagination.dreamchaser.org. [12.32.36.74]) by nightmare.dreamchaser.org (8.11.6/8.9.3) with ESMTP id h5JL4EY03145 for ; Thu, 19 Jun 2003 15:04:14 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from freebsd@dreamchaser.org) Message-ID: <3EF2316F.2020807@dreamchaser.org> Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 15:55:59 -0600 From: Gary Aitken User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-US, es MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: sendmail MX complaint X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 21:56:06 -0000 Hello all, What does the following mean, and where did I screw up? It seems to me like the complaint is what I want -- MX says nightmare, which is nightmare.dreamchaser.org, which is 12.32.36.65. Obviously something here I don't understand (nothing new there...) Jun 19 14:28:33 nightmare sendmail[3020]: h5JKSWK03018: SYSERR(root): MX list for dreamchaser.org. points back to nightmare.dreamchaser.org Jun 19 14:28:42 nightmare sendmail[3020]: h5JKSXK03020: Losing ./qfh5JKSXK03020: savemail panic Jun 19 14:28:42 nightmare sendmail[3020]: h5JKSXK03020: SYSERR(root): savemail: cannot save rejected email anywhere This suddenly showed up as a result of removing dreamchaser.org and nightmare.dreamchaser.org from my /etc/mail/sendmail.cw file, but leaving in the following two entires: 12.32.36 12.32.36.65 My zone file looks like this: ; Not needed; origin comes from the zone statement in named.conf $ORIGIN DREAMCHASER.ORG. $TTL 3600 @ IN SOA dreamchaser.org. root.dreamchaser.org. ( 2001031501 3600 900 604800 3600 ) IN NS nightmare.dreamchaser.org. IN NS ns.village.org. IN MX 5 nightmare dreamchaser.org. IN A 12.32.36.65 nightmare IN A 12.32.36.65 www IN CNAME nightmare And reverse looks like: ; Not needed; origin comes from the zone statement in named.conf $ORIGIN 36.32.12.IN-ADDR.ARPA. $TTL 3600 @ IN SOA nightmare.dreamchaser.org. root.nightmare.dreamchaser.org. ( 2001032201 3600 900 604800 3600 ) IN NS nightmare.dreamchaser.org. IN NS ns.village.org. 65 IN PTR nightmare.dreamchaser.org.