QMail and DNS
James Raftery
james-bind-users at domainregistry.ie
Thu Oct 5 20:29:39 UTC 2000
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 08:46:31PM +0200, Johnny Damtoft wrote:
> Domain must resolve
>
> Is that something that the DNS server is responsible for? Or is it just that
> damn Qmail thingy?
"damn qmail"? I quite like it :) Anyways...
Without seeing the exact error message I'm guessing it's a message
you're getting from remote mail servers when you try to deliver mail to
them. Either;
- The SMTP envelope sender domain doesn't resolve. This is the address
bounce messages would be sent to. Some mail servers won't accept mail
that they can't bounce at a later stage if they need to. To fix this,
you probably need to change the configuration of your email client.
- The fqdn supplied as part of the SMTP HELO command doesn't resolve.
In qmail terms, this means you put a domain that doesn't resolve into
/var/qmail/control/me, or /var/qmail/control/helohost if it exists.
james
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