[Mailman-Users] Re: Do I need an MX Record

[Will Yardley]

On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 03:57:47PM -0500, Sullivan, John wrote:

> OK - But how do I get lists.mlsnet.com to relay mail to the mlsnet.com
> mail server. Subcribers from the mlsnet.com domain are not receiving
> any news letters sent out from the lists.mlsnet.com server. I am
> getting a connection timed out when it tries to contact the external
> MX records.
> 
> I have added an entry in my hosts file that looks like this: 
> 
> 10.10.10.1 mlsnet.com 
> 
> 
> which is the internal ip of the mlsnet.com mail server.

This isn't a mailman question, but rather a MTA configuration question.

What's the result of (from lists.mlsnet.com):

 % dig mlsnet.com mx
 % cat /etc/resolv.conf

Can you send normal mail from that machine to users at mlsnet.com? In
other words, does something like this:

 % echo 'blah' | mail -s "test" luser at mlsnet.com

(where luser at mlsnet.com is a valid address at this domain) work?

What is in your logs?

-- 
The Pope has said this war is wrong, that it is a Sin. The Pope! But
even worse, the Dixie Chicks have now come out against you! How bad does
it have to get before you realize that you are an army of one on this
war? - Michael Moore