Help with setting up a mail server
Cristiano Deana
cristiano.deana at gmail.com
Wed Jul 21 15:24:11 UTC 2010
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 3:26 PM, Aryeh M. Friedman
<aryeh.friedman at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am a consultant and was retained by my client to setup qmail or exim
> on a VPS running 8.0-STABLE (i386). After setting up the DNS (A record
> and MX record) we have been unable to send or receive mail.
steps:
a) check if your dns are correct:
# dig yourdomain.com mx
(eg:)
mail.yourdomain.com
# telnet mail.yourdomain.com 25
does it reply or not?
a) reply
check if your mta is cofigured correctly:
telnet mail.yourdomain.com 25 # write:
ehlo gmail.com
mail from: aryeh.friedman at gmail.com
rcpt to: example_user at yourdomain.com
data
Subject: Test
.
does it reply with a
2XX code? with a 4XX code? 5XX code?
b) doesn't reply
does mail.yourdomain.com resolve to your mailserver's IP?
is your daemon runnig?
p.s
if you give us more REAL information (domain, ip, etc) we can hel you more.
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