On 18/06/2011 23:29, Christopher J. Ruwe wrote: > The mailer answers "220 mail.cruwe.de ESMTP Postfix" when telnet'ed, so > I guess that is what the mailer returns as hostname. > > I did not know about that DNS/rDNS issue ...
You need the name your mail server HELOs as to resolve both forwards and
reverse ---
mail.cruwe.de IN A 188.40.164.98
98.164.40.188.in-addr.arpa IN PTR mail.cruwe.de
That's the thing the FreeBSD mail servers look for[*].
You don't need an A record for cruwe.de at all (at least, not for the
purposes of sending e-mail) MX records are all that is required so that
addresses of the form @cruwe.de will work:
cruwe.de IN MX 10 mail.cruwe.de
Cheers,
Matthew
[*] This HELO name doesn't have to be anything to do with the e-mail
addresses you use, so you could take the lazy path and use
vs532.sys-central.de for this purpose seeing as it already has the
correct forward and reverse mappings. Mind you, that means you won't be
able to insert SPF records or other e-mail related bits as the zone
doesn't belong to you.
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