On Thu, 01 Mar 2001, Jason Benedict Low wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Kindly excuse me if my problem is stupid or if it's not related. I'm
>first-timer setting up a Mail server and i choose qmail instead of
>Sendmail as qmail have the add-on i luv.
>
>Hope you pple out here can help me and THANKS in Advance.
>
>My system: Linux (Turbolinux ver 6.1) (no sendmail installed) (installed
>qmail-1.03)
>
>I don't have own DNS and Static IP. I subscribe to hn.org. i'm using
>Maildir format.
>
>qmail running:-
>
>Following TEST.deliver
>(test using qmail-inject)
>
>1) tested local to local SUCCESSFULL.
>2) tested local to error SUCCESSFULL.
>3) tested local to remote SUCCESSFULL.
>4) tested local to POSTmaster SUCCESSFULL.
>5) tested Double-bounce SUCCESSFULL.
>
>Following TEST.recieve
>(via SMTP)
>
>1) tested local to local SUCCESSFULL.
>2) tested local to remote SUCCESSFULL.
>3) tested remote to local NOT SUCCESSFULL.
>
>Due to i'm first time setting up such server i do not know what when
>wrong. i try sending [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>from my pacific.net.sg (ISP) account both mails bounced back to my
>pacific.net.sg pop account.
>
>I do understand that i need to set MX in DNS under Netphuture.com Zone
>file, but i do not know i do it rightly or not. I want to have my
>SMTP/POP3 known as mail.netphuture.com and user email address as ie.
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>Here my hn.org Dynamic service setting:-
>=======================================================================
>Rec FQDN Rec Type Rec Value DynDNS MX Pref
>=======================================================================
>
>netphuture.com NS ns1.hn.org 0 0
>
>netphuture.com NS aux1.hn.org 0 0
>
>www.netphuture.com CNAME netphuture.com 0 0
>
>netphuture.com A netphuture.hn.org 1 0
>
>mail.netphuture.com CNAME netphuture.com 0 0
>
>netphuture.com MX mail.netphuture.com 0 10
>========================================================================
>
>Please help me. I've installed qmail twice to figure out and read
>through lots of FAQ and mailing archive this whole months Feb'01. No
>doubt i found lots of other knowlegde but i still can't get the Remote
>to local (TEST.recieve) to work. That's why i suspect my setting of MX
>could be the core issue of it.
>
>Sorry for the long message here.
>
>Regards.
>
>Jason Benedict Low
>
>***One's success is not because of oneself but is given by others****
change the mail.netphuture.com record to an a record and point it to either an ip
address or something like mail.netphuture.hn.org
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Unix Systems Administrator
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