Do an Nslookup on mail.xyz.co.uk and make sure that it points to the IP
address on your server as well.
I checked mail.xyz.co.uk and found no records in DNS. So if that is your
real machine + domain name than your ISP is doing something wrong, i.e., you
can see find the domain name on your network from your DNS server, but I
cannot see it from mine on a different network with my DNS server. This
information should be available to everyone on the internet.
If you are sending your test messages from a different netowrk and DNS
server than you probably are not finding the server in DNS either.
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Russ Michaels
Sent: Friday, September 24, 1999 1:56 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] mail never arrives.
ok i checked this and the result was exchanger = mail.xyz.co.uk
so do i just set this as the virtual host name mail.xyz.co.uk
with alias of xyz.co.uk
do i not need to have any other host setup apart from this virtual one.???
At 12:11 PM 9/24/99 -0400, you wrote:
>Sounds like a DNS problem. You need to have your ISP setup DNS records for
>both your host and virtual host, if you have not done so. You can use the
>nslookup command to see if they have setup your records
>
>from a command line type: nslookup
>from the nslookup prompt type: set type=mx
>from the nslookup prompt type: xyz.co.uk
>
>you should get back something that looks like:
>
>xyz.co.uk mx preference = 10, mail exchanger = machine1.xyz.co.uk
>
>
>This record tells people on the internet what host should recieve mail for
>your domain.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Russ Michaels
>Sent: Friday, September 24, 1999 11:51 AM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: [IMail Forum] mail never arrives.
>
>
>OK I need some help setting up IMAIL here.
>Please bear in mind this is my first time adminsitering a live server as I
>am a developer and usually just have a development server, and first time
>period setting up any sort of mailserver.
>I do not have a DNS, my server is co-located so DNS and MX records are done
>on my behalf but not by me.
>
>OK to keep things simple
>lets say my machine is called MACHINE1
>my main domain is abc.com which has the IP of the server.
>I also have 2 other IP setup in TCP/IP which are assigned to domains in
IIS.
>
>I have setup a default host of machine1.abc.com
>with a virtual host of machine1.xyz.co.uk (NO IP for this one)
>I have added 1 account to this virtual host.
>
>Now I can login and check mail, I can send mail to this account, but the
>mail never arrives, it also doesn't go to the root either. I can also send
>mail using the IMAIL client from the server, and these mails will appear
OK.
>What am I missing.
>Have I set up the hostnames correctly?? do I maybe need to use the domain
>of the DNS that my server exists on ratehr than my own domain name....
>
>help
>
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