On Thu, 24 Jan 2008, David Lord wrote: > On 20 Jan 2008, at 12:34, Davide Libenzi wrote: > > > Give me a summary :) Should I look into it or not? > > > > Seems way hostnames are checked is different between NetBSD-4.0 > (xmail-1.25-pre16) and NetBSD-3.1 (xmail-1.25) or NetBSD-3.1 (xmail > 1.25). > > NetBSD 3.1 3.1 4.0 > xmail 1.25-pre16 1.25 1.25 > > private A > address > sendmail ok fail fail > recv ok ok ok > > public MX > address > xmailrelay ok ok not checked > sendmail ok ok ok > recv ok ok not checked > > I have local dns for hosts on lan which also caches public > addresses. There are only A records for private addresses. > Server.tab has SmarDNSHost set to use local dns server. Mutt > and some logging uses /var/MailRoot/bin/sendmail but I could > get round part of problem by using postfix instead. > > Send failures have this form of error > [<00>] XMail bounce: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; > Error=[Recipient domain "p4x2400c.home.lordynet.org" > does not exist (or it has a misconfigured DNS)] > > ############### > ; <<>> DiG 9.4.1-P1 <<>> p4x2400c.home.lordynet.org -t ANY > ;; global options: printcmd > ;; Got answer: > ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 46719 > ;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, > ADDITIONAL: 2 > > ;; QUESTION SECTION: > ;p4x2400c.home.lordynet.org. IN ANY > > ;; ANSWER SECTION: > p4x2400c.home.lordynet.org. 604800 IN A 192.168.59.210 > ############### > > I've still to try an earlier version of xmail on NetBSD-4.0 and also > try again with ipv6 enabled.
I think XMail is getting a ERR_DNS_NXDOMAIN (NXDOMAIN) from your DNS server. When that's happening, XMail does not even try to fall back to the A record delivery. - Davide - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
