I can tell you are a go daddy fan ;-) lol Anyway, I agree with the IP address not matching the mx records. It is strange. Postini seems to come as a result of the MX entries that are there. The reason I know this is because at the end of the postini address in the fault email, there is "(psmtp.com)". This is the server that you identified as the original MX record. At first I did have it as you said, where the MX record was "quantumtechnology.com.au.s8a2.psmtp.com", etc. When it is like that it does EXACTLY the same thing as it does now with the IPs.
As for hosting my own DNS, I don't have much choice. The domain registrar doesn't provide a DNS and I'm also not entitled to purchase it with them as my client owns the name. The registrar only gives provision for us to change name servers. The DNS it was pointing to before (and is again right now temporarily) is that for the old hosting company. Since they are still hosting the mail, yes, it probably is an option to talk with that company about using their DNS as well and only pointing web to mine. However that would lose a lot of flexibility for us and that company is really really bad at communication and hasn't been giving us a good time with anything recently. To be honest, I wish my client would just switch completely but they have strong ties and in that regard I understand why they stay. The company is their ISP,mail and web (for 3 websites) right now. If that is the only option, I'll work on that on Monday, but I'd prefer to have the added flexibility and also have this sorted before Monday. Another interesting note, the error comes from a range of servers from postini. Their IPs/hostnames are all similar. Any idea how in the world one MX record can result in a farm of servers that might respond to your request? Do you think there is something funny with the mail servers where you can't pass mail to them unless you got the mx record from that company's server? I'm really confused with all this. -Seth >>> Kevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 21/07/2007 8:23 pm >>> Seth Mayo wrote: > This isn't about ASSP but when I set up ASSP a month ago, people on > here helped a lot with my configuration and mail server. > > Here I am, running into yet another problem - this time on a new > server though. > > Recently I bought a virtual dedicated server from GoDaddy. It was in > order to host one of my clients websites. The client had experienced > problems with their current host and wanted to switch to use me. > However previously I had used shared hosting accounts for my client > and I've always wanted to consolidate them into a single server that > I manage. So I thought I'd give it a go. Hmm can't say I've heard anything good about godaddy hosting. Your issue is most likely caused by postini, my advice is to LEAVE the MX records alone and just change the A record for the website to your servers ip. If you absolutely insist on hosting their DNS yourself I would then advise you to simply duplicate the MX records as they are "quantumtechnology.com.au.s8a2.psmtp.com" and not change them to your own names. I do find it interesting that the error came from "64.18.3.101" which does not match any of your MX records. Did you ask postini why you were getting that error? Kevin P.S. - PLEASE PLEASE use that huge key on your keyboard labeled "Enter" it makes those loooooooong lines not so long. P.P.S - The MX record order term is "Preference" not "Priority", though if thats the term godaddy uses....I'm not surprised they got it wrong :) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Assp-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/assp-user ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Assp-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/assp-user
