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[Nina Pham]

Ron Goulard wrote:

>On Fri, 2004-05-07 at 18:44, Nina Pham wrote:
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>>Hi I setup the email server on my FC1 system. I have problem sending and 
>>receiving mail. Please bare with me, I need to explain the problem. I 
>>have one email server from my work with is working fine( gibbons.com). 
>>And I try setup the new email server which I name it 
>>barracuda.gibbons.com. I also name it as a alias gibbonsmail.com. The 
>>alias gibbonsmail.com never works. I did 3 things here.
>>    1. I email from my new server(barracuda.gibbons.com) to my yahoo 
>>account, my gibbons.com(the working server), it gets through. The 
>>receivers receive the email. I send to my hotmail account, don't know 
>>what happen there, my hotmail account never receives the email, and 
>>there's no Mail Delivery Subsystem send back to the sender. I send tomy 
>>sbcglobal.net account, it fails, the Mail Deliver Subsystem got back.
>>    2. I email from my working server. It successfully sent to 
>>nina at barracua.gibbons.com, but fail on nina at barracuda.gibbonsmail.com, 
>>and nina at gibbonsmail.com.(Delivery subsystem got back)
>>    3. I email from my yahoo account  it failed all( the Deliver 
>>Subsystem got back). The receivers are nina.barracuda.gibbonsmail.com, 
>>nina at gibbonsmail.com, nina at barracuda.gibbons.com. Even though yahoo 
>>account can receive the mail from nina at barracuda.gibbons.com.
>>Any idea?
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>Nina, I don't see an MX entry for gibbonsmail.com.  
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>(ie. doing 'dig mx gibbonsmail.com  +short' returns nothing)
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>You will need one in DNS (and register that domain name, it returns 'no
>match').  If you've entered one, it may not have propagated yet.  This
>would explain why it can't deliver the mail to those addresses.
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>Ron
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Thanks you guys.  So I will need to register my domain to be able to 
email to the world, but I can exchange mail to my first email server 
without register the domain. Maybe that means locally.

Nina