Mail routing problem...

[Barry Margolin]

In article <c12np0$ogu$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
 Madison Kelly <linux at alteeve.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
>    I have a problem routing my mail and I am not sure why. I am trying 
> to get mail working for "user at thelinuxexperience.com" which is hosted on 
> the same machine as my other domain "alteeve.com" (a RH7.3 server using 
> Sendmail). When I first wrote the DNS record to 'thelinuxexperience.com' 
> I set 'mail.alteeve.com' as the first destination (my bad) and 
> 'mail.thelinuxexperience.com' as the secondary mail server. A few days I 
> fixed that and made 'mail.thelinuxexperience.com' the only mail server 
> for TLE.
> 
>    The TTL on the record is only 1d and the mail server is itself a 
> slave DNS server to the master server so I -know- it has a recent copy 
> of the records.
....
>    Despite all this, when I try to send a message to a user (ie: 'mkelly 
> at thelinuxexperience dot com') the mail bounces back to the sender and 
> to 'postmaster at alteeve dot com' claiming that the MX record (still) 
> points back to 'alteeve.com'.

When I connect to mail.thelinuxexperience.com, it claims it's 
alteeve.com.

I suspect the problem isn't in your DNS, but the SMTP server 
configuration.  It doesn't know it's supposed to deliver mail for 
thelinuxexperience.com locally.

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA