Re: Using qmail-pop with qmail-local

[Brian Wright <bdw@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hehe, my bad! :)  No, those domain names are fake, for security reasons
I didn't want to disclose the actual domain names.  

Thanks for the pointer on getmail. :)  Will this work with qmail-local?

Thanks,
Brian

On Sun, 2002-06-02 at 17:30, Adrian Ho wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 02, 2002 at 03:29:25PM -0700, Brian Wright wrote:
> > The e-mail is hosted on a remote server, called
> > postmaster.ourdomail.net, with the bowling alley having the domain name
> > as bowlingalley.com.
> 
> Are these the real domain names?  If so, your clients won't be receiving
> mail anytime soon:
> 
> ==========
> $ dnsmx bowlingalley.com
> dnsmx: fatal: unable to find MX records for bowlingalley.com: timed out
> 
> $ dnsip bowlingalley.com
> dnsip: fatal: unable to find IP address for bowlingalley.com: timed out
> 
> $ dnsqr ns bowlingalley.com
> 2 bowlingalley.com:
> 78 bytes, 1+2+0+0 records, response, noerror
> query: 2 bowlingalley.com
> answer: bowlingalley.com 171879 NS ns1.home.net
> answer: bowlingalley.com 171879 NS ns2.home.net
> 
> $ ping ns1.home.net
> PING ns1.home.net (24.0.0.27) from 192.168.1.11 : 56(84) bytes of data.
> --- ns1.home.net ping statistics ---
> 7 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss
> 
> $ ping ns2.home.net
> ping: unknown host ns2.home.net
> ==========
> 
> Your client obviously has a serious DNS problem.
> 
> > Do I need to setup DNS on the qmail server?
> 
> You may or may not want to set up a caching resolver (eg. dnscache) on
> the qmail server.  Setting up a DNS content server (eg. tinydns) for
> Intranet use is another possibility; setting it up to export public DNS
> data for bowlingalley.com is probably pointless, due to your dynamic IP.
> 
> But what you /absolutely/ need to do is to get the public DNS records
> for bowlingalley.com hosted on public DNS servers that work, else
> mail to bowlingalley.com will never get anywhere near their intended
> destination.
> 
> > I want to be able to use qmail-popup to fetch the mail
> 
> qmail-popup fronts the authentication process for incoming POP
> connections; it has nothing to do with retrieving mail from remote POP
> servers.  You want something like getmail for this -- see
> <http://www.qcc.sk.ca/~charlesc/software/>.
> 
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