another config problem

Re: another config problem

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Was the second message exactly like the first, or did it bounce
because, for example, the destination address doesn't exist?
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Chris Buxton Men & Mice
cbuxton@menandmice.com We Make DNS Easy!

At 6:25 AM -0500 6/16/01, Bob Escher wrote:
>Hi Chris:
>I want to thank you for all your help.
>But I recieved another message just like the below but this is after I removed
>the MX records for www.rsegroup.com
>any ideas?
>also the below line is what I got when I retrieved the message from
>my mail server
>
>From: mailrelay@156.46.244.20
>Subject: ORT 156.46.244.20 112
>
>
>Thank you for all your help
>
>Best Regards
>Bob Escher
>
>
>
>At 03:54 PM 6/14/01 , you wrote:
>>The problem is that you have these MX records:
>> www.rsegroup.com. MX 5 pop.rsegroup.com.
>> www.rsegroup.com. MX 25 monster.rsegroup.com.
>> www.rsegroup.com. MX 50 supermail.globaldialog.com.
>>
>>but your mail server isn't configured to accept mail for
>>www.rsegroup.com. If you don't want to have mail sent to
>><address@rsegroup.com>, then remove the MX records named
>>www.rsegroup.com. Otherwise, configure your mail server
>>(pop.rsegroup.com) to accept mail for that name.
>>
>>The message from AOL was simply trying to test your setup to see if
>>you're an open relay. Specifically, they were testing for a known
>>weakness in some mail servers, which would translate the address
>><mailrelay%aol.net@www.rsegroup.com> into the address
>><mailrelay@aol.net> and forward the message to that address. If
>>they had received the message, they would have known that your
>>server is an open relay, and they would have then made it very
>>difficult for you to send mail to AOL users.
>>____________________________________________________________________
>>Chris Buxton Men & Mice
>>cbuxton@menandmice.com We Make DNS Easy!
>>
>>At 3:15 PM -0500 6/14/01, Bob Escher wrote:
>>>I am getting the below mesage from AOL
>>>and I can figure out what is wrong
>>>
>>>Any help would be appreciated.
>>>
>>>Thanks
>>>Bob Escher
>>>
>>>
>>>The mail system on pop.RSEGROUP.COM encountered the following error:
>>>A message was not delivered because a loop was found in the Mail
>>>eXchanger record database (the MX loop condition). The destination
>>>host has an MX record that points to this host, but there is no
>>>account for the designated recipient.
>>>Here are a few possible solutions for clearing up this problem:
>>>- add the domain name to your list of Local Mail Domains
>>>if this mail server has complete authority over all
>>>mail accounts within that domain
>>>- return the mail since the address was invalid
>>>- fix the MX records in the DNS for the host in question
>>>and then resubmit the message
>>>- add an account or alias for the recipient on this machine
>>>and then resubmit the message
>>>If this machine should be handling all mail for the destination
>>>host, it should be added to the list of Local-Mail-Domains in
>>>the "system" configuration.
>>>
>>>Destination host: www.rsegroup.com
>>>The following recipients did not receive this message:
>>><mailrelay%aol.net@www.rsegroup.com>
>>>Options for this mail message are:
>>>Action: [] (Delete,Return,Resubmit)
>>>Postmaster-Password: [] (Required for any action)
>>>The original mail envelope addresses are:
>>>User-From: SMTP<mailrelay@[156.46.244.20]>
>>>Recipient: [<mailrelay%aol.net@www.rsegroup.com>]

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