Ubuntu 6.06 Apache 2 PostFix CourierPOP3 Courier IMAP Bind9 ISPConfig 2.2.16 Have got the server accessible BTW VIA web-browser- www.giganetwireless.com I have created all email accounts that server this site under ISPConfig. Using Thunderbird, if I press "Get Mail' the client connects and authenticates to the server, a cert is presented for acceptance after accpeting the cert the email status is checked- Thunderbird encounters no errors- yet their is never any email it can retrieve. There should be mail there however! I emailed myself form a Yahoo account yesterday! This morning in my Yahoo email account I see the email I sent had bounced back to my Yahoo email account. Code: <[email protected]>: Sorry, I couldn't find any host by that name. (#4.1.2) I'm not going to try again; this message has been in the queue too long. Can someone provide some guidance so I can overcome this problem? Thank you Regards
This is the problem: Code: mh1:~# dig mx giganetwireless.com ; <<>> DiG 9.2.1 <<>> mx giganetwireless.com ;; global options: printcmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 60607 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;giganetwireless.com. IN MX ;; ANSWER SECTION: giganetwireless.com. 28800 IN MX 10 giganetwireless.com. giganetwireless.com. 28800 IN MX 5 [B][COLOR="Red"]mail.giganetwireless.com[/COLOR][/B]. ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION: giganetwireless.com. 28800 IN A 72.169.152.211 ;; Query time: 210 msec ;; SERVER: 213.191.92.84#53(213.191.92.84) ;; WHEN: Thu Sep 6 22:54:30 2007 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 90 mh1:~# mail.giganetwireless.com, however, is a CNAME record: Code: mh1:~# dig mail.giganetwireless.com ; <<>> DiG 9.2.1 <<>> mail.giganetwireless.com ;; global options: printcmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 34770 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;mail.giganetwireless.com. IN A ;; ANSWER SECTION: mail.giganetwireless.com. 28800 IN CNAME giganetwireless.com. giganetwireless.com. 28800 IN A 72.169.152.211 ;; Query time: 157 msec ;; SERVER: 213.191.92.84#53(213.191.92.84) ;; WHEN: Thu Sep 6 22:54:44 2007 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 72 mh1:~# But it must be an A record: http://www.howtoforge.com/traditional_dns_howto_p5 "In addition to that, you must not use CNAME records for MX and SOA records."
Thank you once again Falko OK, here are the curent contents of my zone file 'pri.giganetwireless.com' Code: $TTL 86400 @ IN SOA ns1.dnsexit.com. web_admin.giganetwireless.com. ( 2007090529 ; serial, todays date + todays serial # 28800 ; refresh, seconds 7200 ; retry, seconds 604800 ; expire, seconds 86400 ) ; minimum, seconds ; NS ns1.dnsexit.com. ; Inet Address of name server 1 NS ns2.dnsexit.com. ; Inet Address of name server 2 ; mail MX 10 giganetwireless.com. giganetwireless.com. A 72.169.152.211 www A 72.169.152.211 ns2 A 64.182.102.188 ns1 A 63.223.76.173 webmail A 72.169.152.211 login A 72.169.152.210 mail A 72.169.152.211 ftp CNAME giganetwireless.com. mail.giganetwireless.com. TXT "v=spf1 a mx ptr ?all" ;;;; MAKE MANUAL ENTRIES BELOW THIS LINE! ;;;; giganetwireless.com MX 10 mail.giganetwireless.com. mail A 72.169.152.211 www A 72.169.152.211 And here is the current ouput when I run 'dig' Code: mailman@giganetwireless:/etc/bind$ sudo dig @72.169.152.211 any giganetwireless.com ; <<>> DiG 9.3.2 <<>> @72.169.152.211 any giganetwireless.com ; (1 server found) ;; global options: printcmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 50856 ;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 5, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;giganetwireless.com. IN ANY ;; ANSWER SECTION: giganetwireless.com. 86400 IN MX 10 mail.giganetwireless.com. giganetwireless.com. 86400 IN A 72.169.152.211 giganetwireless.com. 86400 IN SOA ns1.dnsexit.com. web_admin.giganetwireless.com. 2007090529 28800 7200 604800 86400 giganetwireless.com. 86400 IN NS ns2.dnsexit.com. giganetwireless.com. 86400 IN NS ns1.dnsexit.com. ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION: mail.giganetwireless.com. 86400 IN A 72.169.152.211 ;; Query time: 7 msec ;; SERVER: 72.169.152.211#53(72.169.152.211) ;; WHEN: Fri Sep 7 11:41:06 2007 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 180 AS of this morning my domain is resolving, I setup a DNSExit account for managed DNS for 'www.giganetwireless.com'. Thunderbinrd barfed a bunch of email at me from a variety of senders even some 'catchall' for a couple of my WISP clients. Out of curiosity I went to my Yahoo account and sent a test email to president <at> giganetwireless <dot> com- next I used Thunderbird to check that accounts status and recieved the piece of email. At this point if I attept to send an email I am perpetually hounded for the password for president <at> giganetwireless <dot> com and even though I enter the correct password it keeps coming back at me prompting for the password and will never send the email??? Thanks you for your help Falko Regards
Thank you Falko... Yesss! I totally screwed up in neglecting to check the 'usr' name in Thunderbird SMTP Authentication section. It was '[email protected]' to acommodate my old server. Once I set the usr to 'web1_pres' email went out, where it went I am unsure. Can't seem to get a reverse DNS lookup to come up PASS for some reason. Went and setup a Managed DNS Service account for 'giganetwireless <dot> com' at DNSExit, defined a MX and A record for the email amongst other records, when I run the NSLookup at DNSExit I see the following results: Code: NSLookup Reported by Name Server: NS1.DNSEXIT.COM Mail Exchanger(MX) Preference# mail.giganetwireless.com 10 Hosts (A Record) IP Addresses giganetwireless.com 72.169.152.211 login.giganetwireless.com 72.169.152.210 mail.giganetwireless.com 72.169.152.211 Alias(CName) Alias to Host IP Addresses www.giganetwireless.com giganetwireless.com 72.169.152.211 ftp.giganetwireless.com giganetwireless.com 72.169.152.211 NSLookup Reported by Name Server: NS2.DNSEXIT.COM Mail Exchanger(MX) Preference# mail.giganetwireless.com 10 Hosts (A Record) IP Addresses giganetwireless.com 72.169.152.211 login.giganetwireless.com 72.169.152.210 mail.giganetwireless.com 72.169.152.211 Alias(CName) Alias to Host IP Addresses www.giganetwireless.com giganetwireless.com 72.169.152.211 ftp.giganetwireless.com giganetwireless.com 72.169.152.211 I am able to send and receive email internal to the server presently which indicates that the email system is working- now to get the revers DNS lookup right so the outside world will accept my servers email.... Thank you Falko Regards
