Hello all,
I'm having problems with our mail server (running Tru64).
Yes, I did check the FAQ (4.5), but the domain name was added to Cw
already.
This is the scenario:
We've got a mailhub, basil.
We want to be able to check all incoming mail for viruses, but basil is
not
powerful enough
to run the antivirus software as well as all the normal load.
So, we thought to deflect all mail to another server, juniper, by
altering
the MX records for the domain on the primary DNS, which also happens to
be
basil.
juniper happily receives mail, viruschecks it, and relays it to basil.
basil accepts the mail from juniper, and then complains about the MX,
mail
looping back to itself.
Cw contains the following settings:
Cwlocalhost cant.ac.uk canterbury.ac.uk basil basil.cant.ac.uk
basil.canterbury.ac.uk juniper juniper.cant.ac.uk
juniper.canterbury.ac.uk
I can't see what else it would need.
Do I need to change the DNS somehow?
This problem is occurring with and without an MX to basil.cant.ac.uk.
I'm rather baffled by this, please help.
Thanks,
Rolf Habing
PS
Below is a transcript of that returned mail.
Mail Delivery Subsystem wrote:
> The original message was received at Thu, 27 Apr 2000 10:34:54 +0100
(BST)
> from juniper [5.0.0.12]
>
> ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
> <r.j.habing_at_[basil.cant.ac.uk]>
>
> ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> 553 basil.cant.ac.uk. config error: mail loops back to me (MX
problem?)
> 554 <r.j.habing_at_[basil.cant.ac.uk]>... Local configuration error
>
>
------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Reporting-MTA: dns; basil.cant.ac.uk
> Received-From-MTA: DNS; juniper
> Arrival-Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 10:34:54 +0100 (BST)
>
> Final-Recipient: RFC822; r.j.habing_at_[basil.cant.ac.uk]
> Action: failed
> Status: 5.5.0
> Remote-MTA: DNS; basil.cant.ac.uk
> Last-Attempt-Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 10:34:54 +0100 (BST)
>
>
------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Subject: 3
> Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 10:32:52 +0100
> From: habing_at_freeuk.com
> To: r.j.habing_at_cant.ac.uk
>
> 3
Received on Thu Apr 27 2000 - 10:39:54 NZST