Local mail exchange and remote website?

[Tom Ostlund]

Hello All, 

My problem relates to receiving mail. It gets returned with that error
message that I posted. 

I am so frustrated. All because the company that gave me a free site for
two years did it in asp... ugh! 

Thanks all for your help, I am still looking for the correct entries to
have the mail exchange local and the site hosted on a different ip
address. 

Thanks
Tom

On Mon, 2010-10-18 at 08:14 -0700, Eric Shubert wrote:

> On 10/18/2010 07:55 AM, Lisa Kachold wrote:
> > HI Tom;
> >
> > These guys are correct, your mail server is not exchanging any
> > authentication but expecting it.
> >
> > WHM and Cpanel use different mail tools depending in what exactly is
> > available and embraced/installed by your hoster.
> >
> > http://www.cpanel.net/products/cpanelwhm/features.html
> >
> > If you have it, use the WHM mail troubleshooter:
> >
> > http://www.webhostingresourcekit.com/flash/whm/whm10_x_mail.html
> >
> > Most web hosters use the WHM mail tool because of the many issues with
> > insecure mail scripts cgi hacked.  This simply means that your server is
> > sending mail FROM ITSELF (not necessarily for/to the domain) using WHM.
> >
> > 1) MX for your domain (so that your new server will be used for MAIL
> > XFER [if you are already using another mail service and have a 0 or 1
> > priority MX record, just add a second MX for your offsite mailer IP
> > machinename (which MUST match the reverse in-addr-arpa IP address and
> > name the server presents itself as PER the RFC)]
> >
> > http://www.gregrobert.com/mxsetup.php
> 
> Sorry Lisa, but I think you're off base here. If I understand Matt's 
> situation correctly, he's having a problem sending email. MX records 
> only come into play for receiving email. You can send all day long with 
> no MX record(s) at all. ;) He shouldn't need to touch any DNS MX 
> configuration. Of course, the destination/recipient domains would need 
> appropriate DNS MX records.
> 
> > 2) Mailer to allow specific IP addresses to access and relay without
> > authentication.
> >
> > If you find you are not using WHM, but have another mail server, it's
> > going to be configurable within Cpanel or WHM also.
> >
> > This is generally in /etc/mail or /etc/postfix and is usually called
> > *relay* something.  But refer to specific documentation for your mail
> > transport tool.
> >
> > I.E. google "How do I configure relay hosts in postfix"  for instance.
> > GoDaddy does have ssh or ftp.  You can change configuration files with
> > ftp, where you generally would be vim editing the file and restarting
> > the mail daemon.  Generally CPanel and WHM have tools to manage
> > everything available on the server.
> >
> > I am familiar with setting up Cpanel and WHM on servers as well as
> > working within them for various shops through the years.  If you have
> > questions you can email or call me off list.
> >
> > So much of the specifics of your hoster are guessed by us, wouldn't this
> > question best be crafted and packaged for their support email or process?
> >
> 
> This part's right on. ;)
> 


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