I'm setting up a new server with email. Email is not working right. In searching for my error (550-Verification failed) it's suggesting my mx record might not be right for my domain. I bought the domain from godaddy. i use another dns server (dnsmadeeasy).
So, where would my mx record be?
How can I view it?
How do I change it?

Same questions for cname. Where can I view my cname?

GoDaddy is a domain Registrar. Typically a Registrar will only have DNS records to point to your main DNS servers.

I'm not familiar with DNS Made Easy but it sounds as if they are the ones that have your main DNS servers. Therefore your MX and CNAME (if any of the latter) would be there.
MX = Mail Exchange record (should have the IP(s) of your mail server(s))
CNAME = Canonical Name (lets you point an alias at an A record name)

You can figure out what your MX records are by typing:

dig -t MX <yourdomainname> +trace

The above should also tell you what nameserver answered your query.

You cannot change your DNS records directly. Contact the company you registered with and ask them how to change your DNS records. The software which automates changes to DNS information is different for different registrars.

Thanks J.

I ran the command and here is part of the output. I hate that they put a period after the domain name.

;; Received 492 bytes from 192.5.5.241#53(F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET) in 93 ms

netcarstop.com. 172800 IN NS ns1.dnsmadeeasy.com.
netcarstop.com. 172800 IN NS ns2.dnsmadeeasy.com.
netcarstop.com. 172800 IN NS ns3.dnsmadeeasy.com.
netcarstop.com. 172800 IN NS ns4.dnsmadeeasy.com.


looks fine otherwise.
Any other ideas what might cause an error 550 in email?

Your e-mail server isn't accepting incoming connections. It's possible that whatever email you are connecting to when you try to send mail is first attempting a connection back to you in order to verify that it can deliver bounce messages, if it has to. If another server tried to verify it could send a bounce to you, before it accepts mail, then it's going to fail because you're not configure correctly to receive mail.

Either your firewall is blocking port 25/tcp inbound, or your ISP is.

I verified iptables allows port 25. It did not, but I had tested with iptables off so ...I confused the issue. I added the line to iptables to allow port 25 and restarted iptables.

Still getting the darn error:
gary @ dothq.com> (expanded from <gary>): host dothq.com[205.234.242.36] said:
550-Verification failed for <root@netcarstop.com> 550-No Such User Here 550
Sender verify failed (in reply to RCPT TO command)

the username gary is bogus ..but the rest of the error message is as I received it.

I simply mailed a test message with this command ( was root at the time):
mail gary < testmailfile

You are right that it's being rejected but I can't find out why.

Thanks for your help!

Any ideas on how I might fix this?

Still getting the darn error:
gary @ dothq.com> (expanded from <gary>): host dothq.com[205.234.242.36] said:
550-Verification failed for <root@netcarstop.com> 550-No Such User Here 550
Sender verify failed (in reply to RCPT TO command)

the username gary is bogus ..but the rest of the error message is as I received it.

I simply mailed a test message with this command ( was root at the time):
mail gary < testmailfile

HOw can I fix this verification error?

It is complaining that your user doesn't exist.

What happens if you use mail on the mail server itself to send to the user?

Run "lsof -i :25" and show output.

"dig mail.dothq.com" shows that 205.234.242.36 is the IP address for your mail server.

Both:
telnet mail.dot.hq 25
and
telnet 205.234.242.36 25
connect fine.

The response you get from your mail server is "host dothq.com[205.234.242.36]... ...No Such User".

You stated "the username gary is bogus".

The response is expected. What happens when you try with a valid username?

I think he is saying he used a fake name "gary" in his post but that he gets the message for a real name.

However, as you and I both posted his issue is that it thinks he doesn't have that (real) user. That isn't a DNS issue at all.

Thank you guys!!!!! You are exactly right. I didn't want to put the real email address on here to keep the spam down. Everything but the bogus name 'gary' is correct. I tried to mail the good user account and got the error I posted above about the user not being valid.

I thought we had a dns issue to start with but it is indeed that the main system does not think the user exists ... but the user is indeed valid.
I had the user set up in /etc/aliases to be forwarded to my dothq domain. I've since commented that out and receive the mail local on netcarstop.com and that works fine.
Why would dothq.com (a completely different server) think that the user ID does not exist on netcarco when indeed it does exist?

Should I start a new thread for this?

DotHQ:

You should start a new thread. It's a different issue and you wouldn't want others to focus on unrelated DNS issues.

When you start the new thread, could you might the following:
- whether or not you installed the mail software and/or what software are you using for each domain or if the mail configuration is done through a third part hosting company.
- when you set up the user mail account on dothq.com, did you set it up through an interface for the mail software that's installed if there is one?
- whether or not you setup a mail account or a unix account for the user (it may differ)
- from you last post it sounds like you're trying to forward an email destined to a dothq.com email account to a netcarstop.com email account. Is that accurate?

It might even be helpful to temporarily setup a gary @ dothq.com (or whatever) email account so others can try to send it mail. When you're satisfied that everything works just delete that mail account and you won't get spam.

i will say i did come in here because of the title


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