Re: Using qmail-pop with qmail-local

[Adrian Ho <aho-djb-qmail@xxxxxxx>]

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:

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$ 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
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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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