Re: Mail to wildcard MX records doesn't work from Yahoo Mail, but fine from other addresses

2010-04-14 Thread Bob Eastbrook
Summary: Thanks for all of the responses. I originally thought this was a Postfix issue, but now I see that I was doing something invalid in DNS. I'm surprised that my otherwise excellent nameserver provider allowed me to do this.

Re: Mail to wildcard MX records doesn't work from Yahoo Mail, but fine from other addresses

2010-04-13 Thread mouss
Bob Eastbrook a écrit : > I use wildcard MX records for mail, and a wildcard CNAME for web > traffic. For example: > > *.example.com = MX record for mail.example.com > *.example.com = CNAME myapp.appspot.com > so you say that *.example.com is an alias (CNAME record), yet you want to g

Re: Mail to wildcard MX records doesn't work from Yahoo Mail, but fine from other addresses

2010-04-13 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 12:16:47AM -0700, Bob Eastbrook wrote: > I use wildcard MX records for mail, and a wildcard CNAME for web > traffic. For example: > > *.example.com = MX record for mail.example.com > *.example.com = CNAME myapp.appspot.com This is invalid. No DNS domain can res

Re: Mail to wildcard MX records doesn't work from Yahoo Mail, but fine from other addresses

2010-04-13 Thread Noel Jones
On 4/13/2010 2:16 AM, Bob Eastbrook wrote: I use wildcard MX records for mail, and a wildcard CNAME for web traffic. For example: *.example.com = MX record for mail.example.com *.example.com = CNAME myapp.appspot.com MX records must not point to a CNAME. Email to b...@foo.examp

Re: Mail to wildcard MX records doesn't work from Yahoo Mail, but fine from other addresses

2010-04-13 Thread Tom Hendrikx
Bob Eastbrook wrote: > NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from > web81307.mail.mud.yahoo.com[68.142.199.123]: 554 5.7.1 > : Relay access denied; > from= to= proto=SMTP > helo= > This says that the yahoo user tries to send mail addressed to b...@myapp.appspot.com, not to b...@example.org. Your mail server is

Re: Mail to wildcard MX records doesn't work from Yahoo Mail, but fine from other addresses

2010-04-13 Thread Simon Waters
On Tuesday 13 April 2010 10:16:49 Bob Eastbrook wrote: > On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 1:01 AM, Simon Waters wrote: > > Your post appears mangled beyond hope of direct assistance. > > Are you saying that the message was improperly formatted? No I'm saying I don't think you aren't administering "example

Re: Mail to wildcard MX records doesn't work from Yahoo Mail, but fine from other addresses

2010-04-13 Thread Bob Eastbrook
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 1:01 AM, Simon Waters wrote: > > Your post appears mangled beyond hope of direct assistance. Are you saying that the message was improperly formatted? >> Remote host said: 554 5.7.1 : Relay access denied > > This implies that your server rejected it. So where is the log

Re: Mail to wildcard MX records doesn't work from Yahoo Mail, but fine from other addresses

2010-04-13 Thread Simon Waters
On Tuesday 13 April 2010 08:16:47 Bob Eastbrook wrote: > Your post appears mangled beyond hope of direct assistance. > Remote host said: 554 5.7.1 : Relay access denied This implies that your server rejected it. So where is the log from your server? The DNS config you give appears to be a case

Mail to wildcard MX records doesn't work from Yahoo Mail, but fine from other addresses

2010-04-13 Thread Bob Eastbrook
I use wildcard MX records for mail, and a wildcard CNAME for web traffic. For example: *.example.com = MX record for mail.example.com *.example.com = CNAME myapp.appspot.com Email to b...@foo.example.com gets delivered to mail.example.com, and web traffic to http://foo.example.com goes