Moritz Schmitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I am supposed to set up a mail server for a little LAN which delivers local
> and remote messages via SMTP. For receiving messages I am going to use
> serialmail but that's not my problem. At least not yet.
Well, it is -- serialmail can't receive messages. It's an SMTP or QMTP
client, not a server. You'll need to run qmail-smtpd or qmail-qmtpd if you
want to receive messages via one of these protocols from a serialmail client
elsewhere.
> I'm using FreeBSD 4.2 RELEASE and qmail 1.03 from the ports. qmail installed
> properly and I can talk to it via TCP/IP on port 25. My local DNS server is
> running Bind 8 and working fine without any problems. If I send a message
> from a client in the network to a local user on the server qmail accepts the
> message and everything looks fine until you start to wonder why qmail isn't
> delivering the message. qmail has delivery problems, the /var/log/maillog
> file says:
>
> (...) starting delivery 33: msg (...) to remote [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> (...) delivery 33: deferral CNAME_lookup_failed_temporarily._ (#4.4.3)\
>
> First of all: The delivery should be a local and not a remote delivery
> because my local domain is waagen-schmitt.de.
Post the output of `qmail-showctl` (copy & paste, without editing). I realize
you summarized some of the contents in your original message, but too many
times it looks correct because the poster types what they meant to put in the
control files, instead of what's actually there.
You did remember to restart qmail after changing locals, didn't you?
> And the second thing is that I don't understand why qmail has a DNS lookup
> failure because my DNS server is running fine.
Well, you think it's running fine. Who knows what the rest of the world sees.
>From here, I get:
[charlesc@charon]$ dnsmx waagen-schmitt.de
10 mx01.schlund.de
10 mx00.schlund.de
Are either of those hosts yours?
Charles
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