FIXED Re: Domain of Sender does not exist

[brad davison]

well.. our internal DNS was set up by a hack who didn't do it right...
I pointed the server to external DNS and everything is happy .

Thanks for your help.


>From: "brad davison" <demonichandextensions at hotmail.com>
>To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>Subject: RE: {Disarmed} Re: Domain of Sender does not exist
>Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 18:05:22 +0000
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>>From: Derek Ragona <derek at computinginnovations.com>
>>To: "brad davison" 
>><demonichandextensions at hotmail.com>,freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>>Subject: {Disarmed} Re: Domain of Sender does not exist
>>Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 11:02:12 -0500
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>>At 10:52 AM 9/12/2007, brad davison wrote:
>>>We are using Sendmail.
>>>Sendmail version 8.13.8, config V10/Berkeley
>>>
>>>It is just odd that of our 17 domains we send/receive mail for.. only the 
>>>4 that are specified in our DNS are the ones having problems.
>>>
>>>The Domains are all listed in local-domain file.
>>>
>>>If there is something else i can check or put in my sendmail config, i'm 
>>>all ears.  It is configured for SMTP AUTH so its the check_rcpt that is 
>>>giving up the error.
>>
>>Make sure they are in /etc/mail/local-host-names
>>
>>         -Derek
>
>I checked local-host-names, and yes they are all listed there.
>
>The machine will accept mail delivered -for- this domain [user]@z.com, but 
>if your Thunderbird (or whatever MUA) is set for [user]@z.com, that's when 
>it gives the error.
>
>How can it accept mail for this domain, and say that the 'domain does not 
>exist' or 'domain does not resolve' errors?
>
>Brad
>>
>>
>>
>>>>>We have SMTP AUTH set up on our mail server.  Our mail server accepts 
>>>>>mail for several domains.
>>>>>x.com
>>>>>y.com
>>>>>z.com
>>>>>
>>>>>Outgoing messages from [user]@x.com, and [user]@y.com goes out fine, 
>>>>>but emails going out from [user]@z.com are getting:
>>>>>
>>>>>Domain of Sender does not exist ([user]@z.com] 5.1.8
>>>>>
>>>>>The oddest thing, is that this server is the MTA for z.com.  Sending to 
>>>>>[user]@z.com will end up on this box no problem.
>>>>>
>>>>>I did not set up our DNS, and it is in Active Directory.  In our DNS 
>>>>>"z.com" in the Forward Lookup Zone has A record for the email server, 
>>>>>and MX record for the email server.
>>>>>
>>>>>What could be hanging this up?  The x.com and y.com are not specified 
>>>>>in our DNS locally at all, so I am not sure how to model the DNS for 
>>>>>these domains.
>>>>>
>>>>>Also, when I 'paused' the z.com zone, I got the
>>>>>Domain of Sender does not resolve 4.1.8 error.
>>>>>
>>>>>Any leads on where my DNS or configs might be not able to resolve this 
>>>>>domain?
>>>>
>>>>What are you using to send mail?  If it is sendmail, sounds like a 
>>>>sendmail error.
>>>>
>>>>         -Derek
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