RE: [Mailman-Users] Re: Do I need an MX Record
OK - But how do I get lists.mlsnet.com to relay mail to the mlsnet.com mail server. Subcribers from the mlsnet.com domain are not receiving any news letters sent out from the lists.mlsnet.com server. I am getting a connection timed out when it tries to contact the external MX records.
I have added an entry in my hosts file that looks like this:
10.10.10.1 mlsnet.com
which is the internal ip of the mlsnet.com mail server.
Your help is appreciated..
-----Original Message----- From: william+mm@hq.newdream.net [mailto:william+mm@hq.newdream.net] Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 3:55 PM To: mailman-users@python.org Subject: [Mailman-Users] Re: Do I need an MX Record
On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 01:34:02AM -0500, Jon Carnes wrote:
In DNS you would have something like: lists.mlsnet.com. A 216.216.23.43 MX 10 lists.mlsnet.com MX 100 mail.mlsnet.com
In this scenario all mail to user@lists.mlsnet.com will be delivered to lists.mlsnet.com. If that server does not respond then the mail will be queued up on your main mail server: mail.mlsnet.com
This assumes that you can setup the other mail server to act as a secondary. If not, then just leave it off.
And "yes" virginia, you *do* need an MX record. If you don't have an MX record then any mail to lists.mlsnet.com will be dumped out to your main mail server (using your domains MX record). You could setup some internal routes on that server to shuffle mail over to lists.mlsnet.com, but that would be counter to your stated intention of moving the load away from the main mail server.
???
If there's an 'A' record for lists.mlsnet.com, and this is the host they want mail for lists.mlsnet.com to be delivered to, there is no need for an MX record. It's good practice to have one, but it's absolutely not required.
And if you're trying to say that (if an MX record for lists.mlsnet.com is absent) mail for lists.mlsnet.com will be delivered to the machine that's the MX record for mlsnet.com itself, you are completely, 100% wrong.
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"Sullivan, John" wrote:
OK - But how do I get lists.mlsnet.com to relay mail to the mlsnet.com mail server. Subcribers from the mlsnet.com domain are not receiving any news letters sent out from the lists.mlsnet.com server. I am getting a connection timed out when it tries to contact the external MX records.
Well does the mail server have list.mlsnet.com in the /etc/mail/relay-domains file?? Mel
System Janitor/Network Plumber http://www.nwla.com Linux User #25446 Linux 2.4.7
On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 03:57:47PM -0500, Sullivan, John wrote:
OK - But how do I get lists.mlsnet.com to relay mail to the mlsnet.com mail server. Subcribers from the mlsnet.com domain are not receiving any news letters sent out from the lists.mlsnet.com server. I am getting a connection timed out when it tries to contact the external MX records.
I have added an entry in my hosts file that looks like this:
10.10.10.1 mlsnet.com
which is the internal ip of the mlsnet.com mail server.
This isn't a mailman question, but rather a MTA configuration question.
What's the result of (from lists.mlsnet.com):
% dig mlsnet.com mx % cat /etc/resolv.conf
Can you send normal mail from that machine to users at mlsnet.com? In other words, does something like this:
% echo 'blah' | mail -s "test" luser@mlsnet.com
(where luser@mlsnet.com is a valid address at this domain) work?
What is in your logs?
-- The Pope has said this war is wrong, that it is a Sin. The Pope! But even worse, the Dixie Chicks have now come out against you! How bad does it have to get before you realize that you are an army of one on this war? - Michael Moore
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"Will" == Will Yardley "[Mailman-Users] Re: Do I need an MX Record" Mon, 31 Mar 2003 17:04:35 -0800
Will> This isn't a mailman question, but rather a MTA
Will> configuration question.Often useful are the tools at <http://www.dnsreport.com/>. For one thing, investigating from outside the local environs will sometimes reveal stuff different than what is seen from within strangely configured surroundings.
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Hi:
I've been successfully using Mailman for E-Tailer's Digest which is a moderated discussion list digest. Today the digest went out without a subject, even though there was one there when sent to the list. Nothing has changed in the admin section.
Where do I look?
TIA
George
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