i) I have worked with my domain name registrar directnic.com to set up the MX record and A address and they say it is now set up properly. Is the following correct?
[Roberts-Computer:~] dionne% dig softdawn.net mx
;; ANSWER SECTION: softdawn.net. 1D IN MX 10 mail.softdawn.net.
;; AUTHORITY SECTION: softdawn.net. 1D IN NS ns0.directnic.com. softdawn.net. 1D IN NS ns1.directnic.com.
;; ADDITIONAL SECTION: mail.softdawn.net. 1D IN A 218.214.24.1
ii) I have the domain name in SIMS set to mail.softdawn.net. I have tried receiving e-mail with, and without, the following lines in the router: mail.softdawn.net = softdawn.net and softdawn.net = mail.softdawn.net
Under the SMTP Receiving Options the TCP/IP Channels is set to 25.
iii) I can make a TELNET connection to SIMS over my local network, but not from a remote computer. The error message I get on the remote is: Could not open connection to the host on port 25: Connect failed.
Over the local network I can use TELNET to send an e-mail to myself at SIMS.
iv) I have the SIMS logs set to the highest level, but SIMS doesn't record a thing when e-mail is being sent to softdawn.net via my ISP (swiftdsl.com.au). The following is the failure notice from bounced e-mail.
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Sorry, I wasn't able to establish an SMTP connection. (#4.4.1) I'm not going to try again; this message has been in the queue too long.
Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Received: (qmail 31119 invoked from network); 8 Jul 2004 05:30:47 -0000
Received: from unknown (HELO swiftdsl.com.au) ([218.214.24.1])
(envelope-sender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)
by tibor.swiftdsl.com.au (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP
for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; 8 Jul 2004 05:30:47 -0000v) Could the problem be how my Mac 7600 (running MacOS 8.6) is set up? File sharing is turned on.
I have learnt a lot in my attempts to get SIMS to receive e-mail so it hasn't been a complete waste of time.
Robert
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SoftDawn Software
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