Topic: Mail Server and Zone Edit settings

[Ynot]

I have never been able to setup the mail server. On Zone Edit I put this in.

mydomain.biz  to IP address
www.mydomain.biz to IP address

mail.mydomain.biz handles mail for mydomain.biz

I have tried this with 5.0 and now installed a new server with 5.1.2 with upgrade 1. This is the only thing I haven't been able to do with e-smith. I've been stuffing around with it for months. What am I missing?

[Confucius]

Your ISP is not relaying the mailport ?

Try to connect from a friends place or at work with a telnet session on port 25 of your server. If this fails your ISP is blocking direct access to the SMTP port and are you probably behind a mail-relay. In that case you have to ask them what the name is of this relay and put it in your DNS with the 2nd priority (yours is 1st offcourse)

It solved my frustration a year ago, they were relaying and didn't inform members at all. A simple phonecall can be helpfull sometimes.

Harro

[Steve Bush]

You will need an mx record setup to mail.mydomain.biz and an A record setup for mail.mydomain.biz's IP address

[Stan]

> mydomain.biz to IP address
> www.mydomain.biz to IP address
>
> mail.mydomain.biz handles mail for mydomain.biz

Fine, but what's "mail.mydomain.biz"???

You know it, we know it, but the DNS system doesn't! A mailserver tries to send a message to your domain, performs the DNS query for a mailserver (MX) record for the domain - gets 'mail.mydomain.biz'. Then it tries to get the IP address of that host and gets an error! No such host exists...

Add that hostname 'mail' to the same IP address in ZoneEdit, like you did with 'www' and You'll be fine

Regards
Stan