Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2441 mails)

["Jeffrey L. Taylor" <suse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Quoting peter thesing <peter43@xxxxxxxxx>:
> Hi
> 
> Thru the tutorial i have setup webcyradmin, postfix and Cyrus as mail 
> components. Without any problem i can send emails to the defined users 
> in the domains i have specified in webcyradmin. However if i want to 
> send an email to my hotmail account i get the following entry in the 
> mail log.
> Jun 12 13:08:28 peter postfix/qmgr[27116]: EB2F255BE8: 
> from=<peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, size=575, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
> Jun 12 13:08:28 peter postfix/smtp[27202]: EB2F255BE8: 
> to=<peterthesing@xxxxxxxxxxx>, relay=none, delay=1, status=deferred 
> (Host or domain name not found. Name service error for name=hotmail.com 
> type=MX: Host not found, try again)
> Jun 12 13:08:28 peter postfix/smtpd[27175]: disconnect from 
> celeron.prive.web[10.0.0.157]
> 
> and the mail is not delivered
> 

Postfix does not deal with the main address, only the Mail eXchangher
(MX) addresses, so the relevant queries are:

host -t mx hotmail.com

dig hotmail.com mx

HTH,
  Jeffrey