Acording to namesevers for dedicated.hosteurope.de is there no MX. You can't tell dedicated who is MX, you must get that information to dns.hosteurope.de Send e-mail to hostmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and request creation of MX record pointing to your server. # host -t soa dedicated.hosteurope.de dedicated.hosteurope.de > SOA dns.hosteurope.de. hostmaster.hosteurope.de. 2007041602 10800 3600 3600000 3600 # host -a dedicated.hosteurope.de Trying "dedicated.hosteurope.de" ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 19701 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;dedicated.hosteurope.de. IN ANY ;; ANSWER SECTION: dedicated.hosteurope.de. 751 IN NS dns2.hosteurope.de. dedicated.hosteurope.de. 751 IN NS dns.hosteurope.de. ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: dedicated.hosteurope.de. 751 IN NS dns.hosteurope.de. dedicated.hosteurope.de. 751 IN NS dns2.hosteurope.de. ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION: dns.hosteurope.de. 2929 IN A 80.237.128.156 dns2.hosteurope.de. 2931 IN A 80.237.129.61 -- Later Mogens Melander +45 40 85 71 38 +66 870 133 224 On Thu, April 19, 2007 12:14, JOYDEEP wrote: > Dear list, > > I have installed cyrus - imap on a remote hired server. the domain of > the server is dedicated.hosteurope.de > but I can't get any mail in the cyrus mailboxes. > I use dnsstuff to query the dedicated.hosteurope.de and find as > > ------------------------------------------------------ > > Getting MX record for dedicated.hosteurope.de (from local DNS server, may > be cached)... > There is no MX record for dedicated.hosteurope.de! That's bad. > Checking for an A record... Got it! > --------------------------------------------------------- > > so how can I add dedicated.hosteurope.de in MX record ? how can I create > such MX in the remote server ? > > please help > > ---- > Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ > Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki > List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by OpenProtect(http://www.openprotect.com), and is > believed to be clean. > -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by OpenProtect(http://www.openprotect.com), and is believed to be clean. ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html