What am I missing? MX question

[Michael Voight]

Well, you have no mx record for mysite.com.
*.mysite.com is NOT mysite.com
However the A record for mysite.com should normally work.
The question here is:

1. Do hosts outside the domain see the A record
2. Does the mailing host require MX record? (weird)
3. Has the receiving system been configured to accept mail for
mysite.com?
(note, by default it might only accept mail for its hostname)

It is difficult to determine why you don't want to tell us people on the
outside the name of this outside domain..... It would make it easier to
troubleshoot.

Mchael

steve wrote:
> 
> localhost.mysite.com.   IN  A  127.0.0.1
> 
> mysite.com.       IN  A  xxx.xxx.73.26
> mail.mysite.com. IN A xxx.xxx.73.27
> www.mysite.com.    IN  CNAME mysite.com.
> 
> ; global MX records for unspecified members of the zone
> *.mysite.com.     IN  MX  10  mail.mysite.com. ;GLOBALOK
>
> ; MX records for email addressed to the zone itself
>  *.mysite.com.       IN  MX  10  mail.mysite.com. ;EXTRE

> 
> E-mail sent from someone in the domain to someone else in the domain
> seem to work.
> E-mail sent from the domain to outside the domain work.
> Mail sent from outside the domain to the domain bounces with 550
> <someone at mysite.com>... Host unknown (Name server: mysite.com: host not
> found).