Thanks for your reply, Will. Actually, in the process of trying to figure this problem out I did turn to GlobalSite.ws's tech support, but they gave me just a non-descript, blow-off answer; not a word about those two good sites you mention below from which I ought to be able to draw some useful information. Ed McCorduck Department of English State University of New York College at Cortland http://mccorduck.cortland.edu ICQ: http://mccorduck.cortland.edu/pager AIM: EdMcCorduck > -----Original Message----- > From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Will Mc Donald > Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2004 5:28 AM > To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list > Subject: Re: problems receiving e-mail to my server redux > > > It looks to me like your DNS config for the mccorduck.ws > domain's incorrectly configured. There's no SOA for the > domain and there's no MX record either. MX records are > responsible for routing email for domains. > > I notice your DNS is hosted by dns.ws, have you read through > their documentation on configuring DNS for your domain? > > http://dns.ws/about.html > > http://dns.ws/123dns.html > > Will. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ed McCorduck" <Ed.McCorduck@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: <redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2004 9:52 AM > Subject: problems receiving e-mail to my server redux > > > > Hi, some of you may remember my postings from a few months ago > > regarding the problems I was having with my RH 9-based Web > and e-mail > > server. Some of the problems have been resolved, namely my > Web server > > now works mostly fine, i.e. people have no problem > accessing the Web > > pages housed on my server through the fully-qualified domain name > > assigned to my home network (which redirects all Web-page > requests to > > the sole RH 9 Linux box on my network), and also I can send > e-mail to > > any outside domain and it's addressed as coming from my > domain name's > > e-mail server. However, I still cannot receive any Internet > mail to my > > domain name, even mail that's in direct reply to the > above-mentioned > > type of mail I send successfully to other servers. That is, > the mail > > always bounces with an indication that my domain name can't > be found, > > which again is strange since there is no problem accessing > my domain > > name when it's for my Web pages. > > > > I've purposely left the above description of my problem > curt and vague > > because it is described in great detail in a couple of threads I > > participated in on another Linux help site; I haven't gotten any > > follow-ups there in a while, so I've decided to try this > forum again. > > I've made copies of those other threads and put them up at the > > following > > addresses: http://mccorduck.cortland.edu/part1 and > > http://mccorduck.cortland.edu/part2. If anyone would care to look at > > these and study all the details there and possibly lead me to > > discovering why I can't receive e-mail to my Linux server, I would > > greatly appreciate it. > > > > > > Ed McCorduck > > Department of English > > State University of New York College at Cortland > > http://mccorduck.cortland.edu > > ICQ: http://mccorduck.cortland.edu/pager > > AIM: EdMcCorduck > > > > > > -- > > redhat-list mailing list > > unsubscribe > mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?> subject=unsubscribe > > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
