An MX record loopback problem

[Kevin Darcy]

This probably isn't a DNS problem at all. Is the mail server running on the
box configured to accept @adc.idv.tw mail as local? With sendmail, for
example, you'd probably add that domain to the sendmail.cw file.


- Kevin

Rookie wrote:

>  Hi,
>
>  It's very frustrated I just cannot find the answer of this problem.
>
>  My BIND server(dns.abc.idv.tw) is also the primary POP3 server on
> abc.idv.tw
>  So I set up the MX record as
>
>  abc.idv.tw.      IN      MX      0    dns.abc.idv.tw.
>
>  in order to cut down the E-mail address as ?????@abc.idv.tw but not
> ?????@dns.abc.idv.tw
>  but it will cause MX loopback problem.
>
>  It means BIND server cannot be the primary POP3 server on the same domain?
>  or is there any other ways to solve this problem?
>
>  Thanks for your help...:)