CNAMEs are a bad thing for email. Check the discussion in THOUGHTS.
Change your DNS so that scode is an A rather than a CNAME and the
remote MTAs won't bother doing the re-writing.
Regards.
On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 03:47:34PM -0500, Peter Schuller wrote:
> Hello,
>
> lately, outside (non-local) SMTP servers have begun to go crazy. For
> example, I have a standard entry in my qmail virtualdomains file for all
> mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - it goes to the user scode.
>
> But if I attempt to send an E-Mail from an outside source (a few have been
> tried) to, say, [EMAIL PROTECTED], the SMTP server making the final
> delivery suddently goes mad and does an RCTP [EMAIL PROTECTED]!
>
> What might cause this? I even changed "scode" back from being a CNAME to
> being an A record in the DNS configuration, in case that was the cause.
>
> Note, my main address "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" works fine.
> mail.infidyne.com is the MX for the domain.
>
> Any suggestions would be appreciated. The strange part is that we didn't have
> this problem earlier.
>
> Thank you,
>
> --
> / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB
>
> PGP userID: 0x5584BD98 or 'Peter Schuller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>'
> Key retrival: Send an E-Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://scode.infidyne.com
>
