Mail routing problem...

[Madison Kelly]

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.

  -= From the mail server =-
$ dig -t MX thelinuxexperience.com
 

; <<>> DiG 9.2.1 <<>> -t MX thelinuxexperience.com
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 53685
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2
 

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;thelinuxexperience.com.                IN      MX
 

;; ANSWER SECTION:
thelinuxexperience.com. 38400   IN      MX      10 
mail.thelinuxexperience.com.
 

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
thelinuxexperience.com. 38400   IN      NS      ns2.madisonave.ca.
thelinuxexperience.com. 38400   IN      NS      ns1.madisonave.ca.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
ns1.madisonave.ca.      38400   IN      A       209.167.86.46
ns2.madisonave.ca.      38400   IN      A       209.167.86.38

;; Query time: 3 msec
;; SERVER: 209.167.86.46#53(209.167.86.46)
;; WHEN: Thu Feb 19 11:06:33 2004
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 142


   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'.

   Here is the header and error:

  -= Bounced Message =-
 From - Thu Feb 19 10:59:05 2004
X-UIDL: 402677c800003373
X-Mozilla-Status: 0001
X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000
Return-Path: <MAILER-DAEMON at alteeve.com>
Received: from localhost (localhost)
	by alteeve.com (8.11.6/linuxconf) id i1JFteV12015;
	Thu, 19 Feb 2004 10:55:40 -0500
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 10:55:40 -0500
From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <MAILER-DAEMON at alteeve.com>
Message-Id: <200402191555.i1JFteV12015 at alteeve.com>
To: postmaster at alteeve.com
To: <linux at alteeve.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/report; report-type=delivery-status;
	boundary="i1JFteV12015.1077206140/alteeve.com"
Subject: Returned mail: see transcript for details
Auto-Submitted: auto-generated (failure)
Status:

This is a MIME-encapsulated message

--i1JFteV12015.1077206140/alteeve.com

The original message was received at Thu, 19 Feb 2004 10:55:40 -0500
from [209.167.86.34]

    ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
<mkelly at thelinuxexperience.com>

    ----- Transcript of session follows -----
554 5.0.0 MX list for thelinuxexperience.com. points back to alteeve.com
554 5.3.5 Local configuration error

--i1JFteV12015.1077206140/alteeve.com
Content-Type: message/delivery-status

Reporting-MTA: dns; alteeve.com
Received-From-MTA: DNS; [209.167.86.34]
Arrival-Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 10:55:40 -0500

Final-Recipient: RFC822; mkelly at thelinuxexperience.com
Action: failed
Status: 5.5.0
Remote-MTA: DNS; thelinuxexperience.com
Last-Attempt-Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 10:55:40 -0500

--i1JFteV12015.1077206140/alteeve.com
Content-Type: message/rfc822

Return-Path: <linux at alteeve.com>
Received: from alteeve.com ([209.167.86.34])
	by alteeve.com (8.11.6/linuxconf) with ESMTP id i1JFtZV12013
	for <mkelly at thelinuxexperience.com>; Thu, 19 Feb 2004 10:55:40 -0500
Message-ID: <4034DD3D.5090400 at alteeve.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 10:58:53 -0500
From: Madison Kelly <linux at alteeve.com>
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031016
X-Accept-Language: en-us, en
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: mkelly at thelinuxexperience.com
Subject: test mail
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Well?


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  -= End message =-