Thanks Mike for the correction. Sure its A record not CNAME as i had put it earlier on.
Regards, ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul Mwiu Kenyaweb.com Ltd CDMA: 020 2077340 Mobile: 0722 205594 Email: [email protected] Web: www.kenyaweb.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 10:04 +0000, Mike Cardwell wrote: > 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/
