Date:  Sun, 15 Jun 2008 03:58:31 -0700 (PDT)
From:  Dan Kriwitsky <webhosting (at mark) yahoo.com>
Subject:  [coba-e:13320] Re: excessive recursion
To:  coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org
Message-Id:  <416367.63483.qm (at mark) web65603.mail.ac4.yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To:  <200806150944.35342.bq (at mark) solarspeed.net>
X-Mail-Count: 13320


--- Michael Stauber <bq (at mark) solarspeed.net> wrote:

> Hi Dan,
> 
> > The domain where I placed the email alias has only A records for
> > the domain and the www and just an MX for the domain, not for the www.
> MX
> > records shouldn't be necessary for the www. 
> 
> I'm sorry, but that that is exactly the problem.
> 
> > Never had them for any domain before on the RaQ either.
> 
> Yes, because on the RaQs you were running a much older Sendmail than the
> one 
> you're using on BlueQuartz. The old Sendmail was a bit more forgiving.
> :o)
> 
> What Ken Marcus said will get you sorted. 
> 
> I have an article in the Knowledge Base of my site that explains the
> "why" and 
> the "how":
> 
> http://www.solarspeed.net/otrs/public.pl?Action=PublicFAQ&ItemID=16
> 

That did fix the problem for this particular domain. It doesn't explain why
it was only this domain that needed such MX records when all the other
domains with working email only have a single MX record for example.com -->
mail.example2.com which is another virtual domain on the server.

-- 
Dan Kriwitsky