On 26/02/2010 08:36, Paul Mwiu wrote: > primary_hostname should be set to a FQDN unless your mailserver is an > internal server for office communication which can be set to a dummy > domain i.e. > > primary_hostname = mail.kerstin.com > > where kerstin.com is a valid domain name, and mail.kerstin.com is a > CNAME that exists within kerstin.com for mails.
When you said "CNAME" there it set off alarm bells. An MX record is not allowed to point at a CNAME. m...@haven:~$ host -t mx kerstin.com kerstin.com MX 0 mail.kerstin.com m...@haven:~$ However... Looking at "mail.kerstin.com", it appears to be an A record, not a CNAME, which is fine... -- Mike Cardwell : UK based IT Consultant, Perl developer, Linux admin Cardwell IT Ltd. : UK Company - http://cardwellit.com/ #06920226 Technical Blog : Tech Blog - https://secure.grepular.com/ Spamalyser : Spam Tool - http://spamalyser.com/ -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
