postfix and mta error

[mahmoud]

ok that is what you are pointing to?

[root@test /]# cat /etc/hosts
# Do not remove the following line, or various programs
# that require network functionality will fail.
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
192.168.21.75 mail.test.alghurair.com mail

[uxbod]

Okay, so your named file should be like

@ IN SOA test.alaghurair.com. hostmaster.test.alghurair.com. (
10118 ; Serial
43200 ; Refresh
3600 ; Retry
3600000 ; Expire
2592000 ) ; Minimum
; Define the nameservers and the mail servers
IN NS mail
mail IN A 192.168.21.75
IN MX 10 mail

you do not need to specify the FQDN for the MX record as it is within the same domain. alaghurair.com will be appended when mail is resolved back.

[mahmoud]

lets clear it a bit
my domain is : alghurair.com
my server is : test.alghurair.com
how iam going to make an mx record to that specifications?
which files do you want me to append from my preivious posts?

Regards and iam very thankfull for all your help

[mahmoud]

ok will append that immediatly and reply you back

[uxbod]

Ok. The named file should therefore be db.alghurair.com and should have these entries

@ IN SOA alaghurair.com. hostmaster.alghurair.com. (
10118 ; Serial
43200 ; Refresh
3600 ; Retry
3600000 ; Expire
2592000 ) ; Minimum
; Define the nameservers and the mail servers
IN NS test
test IN A 192.168.21.75
IN MX 10 test

that means the server test.alghurair.com will provide both DNS and ZCS services for the domain alaghurair.com. /etc/resolv.conf should point to

nameserver 192.168.21.75

[mahmoud]

excellent . every service running fine now thanks for your efforts.
now i want to ask a stupid question , from admin@test.alghurair.com mail account i sent an email to the same account , it tells me that the message has been sent but i didnot see any thing in the inbox.

in the mail qeues i found the message has been deffered !!
is that normal?
and if i want to see the mail mechanism i mean the send and recieve do i need to create another account?

thanks