allanh: (Grace Hopper & Univac)
allanh ([personal profile] allanh) wrote in [site community profile] dw_maintenance 2009-05-02 05:48 pm (UTC)

As someone who spends much time being paid unreasonable sums of money for unblocking email systems, I figured it might be prudent to present a few basic suggestions, in the event that the stress and craziness of bringing up the system may have caused skipping of one or more of the steps. :)

The providers you've listed (plus comcast.net) are looking for the following:

1. An "MX" record attached to every mail server, even if it's outbound-only

2. A reverse DNS record attached to every mail server (this is critical!)

3. An "A" record in every "MX" record-e.g., don't put just an IP address in an MX record.

4. Every mail host answers up with its "A" record name. I notice that "mail.dreamwidth.org" answers up as "dfw-mail01". It should answer up as "mail.dreamwidth.org" -OR- you should change the mail server's MX record to "dfw-mail01".

If I can be of further assistance with DNS troubleshooting, please let me know.


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