Re: [cpx] Can I get CPX to add a mail server?

[Jonathan Duncan <jonathan@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 9 Aug 2006, AlpineWeb wrote:

> Hello Jonathan,
>
> Your question is difficult to address because there is confusion regarding 
> user@xxxxxxxxxx, user@domain and mail.domain.org. Try using the same domain 
> for all of these values.
>
> It is also unclear why you would want to use mail.domain.org for mail to 
> domain.org. It would make sense if you had domain.org and mail.domain.org on 
> separate hosts but not if you are providing web and mail on the same host 
> machine. Have you been using mail.some-domain.com domains for cosmetic 
> reasons?
I have this habit of setting up a separate MX server for all domains that 
I host, just in case they ever need to be put on different servers. 
However, perhaps that is a practice that I just need to do away with.


> In any event, the error message seems to indicate that the user has some 
> incorrect settings, i.e.; user@xxxxxxxxxx vs. user@xxxxxxxxxx vs. 
> mail.domain.org. It could also be an SMTP-AUTH problem so make sure they are 
> enabling it in their e-mail client.
>
> If you don't already have it you might want to get the Bat book (sendmail) 
> from O'Reilly. It'll tell you everything you want to know about sendmail and 
> then some. ;-)
I should.  Thanks for the suggestion.

Jonathan
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