On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 3:26 PM, Aryeh M. Friedman <[email protected]> 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: [email protected] rcpt to: [email protected] 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. -- Cris, member of G.U.F.I Italian FreeBSD User Group http://www.gufi.org/ _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
