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I must configure what to receive emails posted to me

Hallo,
I m using SuSE 8.0, and i have sendmail configured so i can send emails using sendmail, and the received email will have the adress hikha@lpar.dori.com in the <from> field
but when i try to send an email to this adress (hikha@lpar.dori.com) from a gmail account (for example) it fails and it bounces and the i receive the email telling that:
****************************************************
This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification
Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently:
hikha@lpar.dori.com

Technical details of permanent failure:
PERM_FAILURE: DNS Error: Domain name not found

----- Original message -----
Received: by 10.54.53.15 with SMTP id b15mr2280311wra;
Sun, 19 Jun 2005 21:23:13 -0700 (PDT)
Received: by 10.54.65.15 with HTTP; Sun, 19 Jun 2005 21:23:13 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <47ce88f505061921235e3f5991@mail.gmail.com>
****************************************************

We suppose here that the domaine lpar.dori.com is already registred
so when i tape: $> host lpar.dori.com
lpar.dori.com has adress xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
$> host xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx.IN.ADDR.ARPA domain name pointer lpar.dori.com

what i have to do in order to send emails to hikha@lpar.dori.com and to retrieve them. ? must i configure a pop3 server or what ?

thanks (you can reply me to: sos_linux@hotmail.com)

Have you set up mx records for that server ?

RE: I must configure what to receive emails posted to me

i think that the MX and A records are already set up..
i juste made a mistake, the real host name is node06.lrap.polymtl.ca
you can verify if this host is registred in DNS
thanks...

Code:

server2 root # dig  node06.lrap.polymtl.ca mx



; <<>> DiG 9.2.5 <<>> node06.lrap.polymtl.ca mx

;; global options:  printcmd

;; Got answer:

;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 48985

;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0



;; QUESTION SECTION:

;node06.lrap.polymtl.ca.                IN      MX



;; AUTHORITY SECTION:

lrap.polymtl.ca.        3523    IN      SOA    dns.gi.polymtl.ca. postmaster.doc.gi.polymtl.ca. 2005011101 10800 3600 604800 3600



;; Query time: 0 msec

;; SERVER: 192.168.0.11#53(192.168.0.11)

;; WHEN: Thu Jun 23 20:12:51 2005

;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 98



server2 root #

According to dig you don't have any MX records

Pete

So how can i setup the MX record for my host name --> node06.lrap.polymtl.ca ?
thanks!

hicham007

You need to contact whoever hosts your domain and or DNS records

DNS records are not always hosted with the domain only you know this

Sometimes they supply a user interface which allows you to modify your own records otherwise you will have to make a request for an MX record to be added pointing to the IP of your mail server