Lähettäjä: Trevor Howe Päiväys: Vastaanottaja: Xander D Harkness, exim Users Aihe: Re: [Exim] Very odd problem -- Only recieves from sendmail
Following Xanders advice I changed the priority from 0 to 5 on the MX record
and tried the digs here are the results. Also I still cant recieve from my
ISP account. Also Xander if u could explain using BT's server to check I
would be much appreciated
----- Original Message -----
From: "Xander D Harkness" <xander@???>
To: "Trevor Howe" <reXem@???>; "exim Users" <exim-users@???>
Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 3:21 PM
Subject: Re: [Exim] Very odd problem -- Only recieves from sendmail
> Trevor Howe wrote:
>
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> >If anyone remembers I was having trouble recieving outside mail well I got my namersevers all pointed properly and I still dont have it working
100%. If I have friend use sendmail from his freeBSD machine (only setup as
far as install takes it) then it gets too me no problem. If I have him send
it from his ISP email I get nothing. I have no clue what is going on. Why
can I only recieve mail if its sent from sendmail? > >
> >
> >
> I have seen this before and the problem was with DNS. The windows boxes
> were having difficulty picking up nameserver records. Even though port
> 53 was not firewalled they would routinely not properly report mx
> priority when they did manage.
>
> At the time I got round it by setting a script to query their name
> servers repeatedly (every hour or so) for the mx, and other data.
>
> You might find if you run:
>
> dig isp.com ns
>
> dig @ns1.isp.com ns14.zoneedit.com.
> dig @ns1.isp.com mail.japplications.net. mx
> dig @ns1.isp.com mail.japplications.net.
>
> at all the ISPs name servers that you will get your mail next time you try. >
> It might even be that windows DNS has a bug that requires MX priority
> greater than 0
>
> As a test for my own DNS I usually use BT's servers (ns1.bt.net) as it
> allows external recursion.
>
> Kind regards
> Xander
>