> Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2004 2:54 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Mail Exchanger - help > > > Greetings, > I have a LAN that is on private IP. It is nat'd to the internet. > The internal LAN domain name is registered. Our ISP > just forwards the osborneindustries.com domain name to > our other registered domain name. > > In an effort to replace our internal msmail (Yuk!), I have > setup a test server running Freebsd 5.1-release. It has > qmail installed on it and configured as per lifewith qmail. > It passes all the tests as defined in lifewithqmail. > > I have another server (HP9000, running HPUX) that has > djbdns (tinydns, dnscache, etc) setup and servicing my > LAN. internal host names are resolved just fine. > > When (from outlook) I try to send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED], > the mail gets sent out to our ISP. I have outlook configured properly > with a service for the osborneindustries.com. > > I have created a mx record on the HP. I ran the following: > > # ./dnsmx osborneindustries.com > 0 goober.mx.osborneindustries.com > > on the qmail server I ran: > > mail# dnsquery -t mx osborneindustries.com > ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 1241 > ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0 > ;; osborneindustries.com, type = MX, class = IN > osborneindustries.com. 23h51m37s IN MX 0 > goober.mx.osborneindustries.com. > > both seem to see the mx record. Seems that qmail can't find > it though. > what do I need to set/fix to get qmail to find the mx record ? > the resolv.conf on the qmail server has: > > domain osborneindustries.com > nameserver 192.168.1.1 > > any ideas would be great. BTW, outside users (on the > internet) do not use > our internal > dns server to resolve addresses. >
well I know it's bad form to answer your own question, but after messing with this for days, I have found the solution. In addition to creating a mx record on my dns server, I had to Add osborneindustries.com to /var/qmail/control/locals, and tell qmail to read locals (/var/qmail/bin/qmailctl hup). Add osborneindustries.com to /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts. Anyway, just for completeness. -Darryl _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
