Local mail exchange and remote website? FIXED

[Tom Ostlund]

Thanks "Shubes" 

I appreciate it. 

It is weird that it is that way. I was looking at my unmodified locally
hosted accounts and they are all pointing to a cname. None of them have
any issues. 

Go figure. That will be for the next linux meeting! 

Toodles! 

Tom



On Mon, 2010-10-18 at 08:52 -0700, Eric Shubert wrote:

> MX records must point to type A records, not CNAME records. It sounds 
> like this was your problem. You might suggest to the WHM developers that 
> they edit for such misconfigurations.
> 
> This certainly does not appear to be related to the error message you 
> originally posted. Sometimes error messages aren't indicative of the 
> real problem though.
> 
> On 10/18/2010 08:36 AM, Tom Ostlund wrote:
> >
> > In WHM under the DNS Functions, changing
> >
> > mail 301 in cname websitename.com --> to --> mail 14400 in A IP_ADDRESS
> > is the change that needed to be made.
> >
> > Now it all works.
> >
> > Thanks to all
> >
> > Tom
> >
> > On Mon, 2010-10-18 at 08:28 -0700, Tom Ostlund wrote:
> >> 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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