--On Tuesday, January 13, 2004 2:00 PM -0800 Mark Squire
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi all,
> Some of you were kind enough to give this new-B some advice before
> regarding this issue, but I am a little baffled by something.  I set up
> a mail server as a test server, and put it on it's own network.  I then
> set up a router so that it can route to and from our prod net.  I set up
> a DNS server on that router, and set things up appropriately DNS-wise
> for the appropriate domains.  I am trying to send mail from this server
> to another server in our prod network.  To do that you need the
> appropriate MX, PTR, and A records.  So I ping the prod server from the
> test mail server by name, and it resolves, and responds.  I do the
> following checks to be sure DNS is set up:
> 
> Nslookup
>> Set type=mx
>> domain.com
> 
> It responds with the appropriate addressing.
> 
>> Set type=PTR
>> xxx.yyy.zzz.aaa
> 
> It responds with the appropriate server name.
> 
> Yet when I connect to this test mail server from the prod server, it
> does not recognize it.  I get a:
> 
> (Name service error for name=mail.mailtest.com type=MX: Host not found,
> try again)
> 
> Any ideas?

I don't see what this has to do with SpamAssassin, however if
mail.mailtest.com IS the name of the server, you have no MX records for
mailtest.com or mail.mailtest.com .

Evan


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