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Unable to send or receive emails

Hi everyone,

I've installed ISPConfig 3 on my VPS using the brilliant tutorial here: http://www.howtoforge.com/forums/showthread.php?t=56541

However, if I go to send an email to an account I've set up on the server I get the following error:

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Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently:
michael@gravex.co.uk

Technical details of permanent failure:
DNS Error: DNS server returned answer with no data

I've checked my DNS records for that domain, and they are as follows:

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setanta        A                80.xx.xx.xx        

mail.gravex.co.uk        MX        10        80.xx.xx.xx

NS                ns1.6sync.net.        

NS                ns2.6sync.net.        

NS                ns3.6sync.net.        

ftp        A                80.xx.xx.xx

mail        A                80.xx.xx.xx

dail        A                80.xx.xx.xx

www        A                80.xx.xx.xx

.        A                80.xx.xx.xx

I've also tried to send an email from squirrelmail. I've had no errors come back but I've not had the e-mail come through either.

I'm not sure what's going on, as I thought adding mail.gravex.co.uk as an MX record would work, but I don't think it has. What do I need to do to make it work?

Cheers!

I deleted all the DNS records held by ISPConfig 3 and transferred them to the VPS providers nameservers. Now when I send email I don't get the DNS error.

However, I don't get any bounce bank emails and I still can't send emails. I have checked the long and I get the following error:

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Mar 16 07:55:23 setanta postfix/smtp[17339]: 64F235F83: to=<myemailaddress@gmail.com>, relay=none, delay=0.07, delays=0.07/0.01/0/0, dsn=4.4.1, status=deferred (connect to

127.0.0.1[127.0.0.1]:10024: Connection refused)

I have changed the following in the Postfix config file:

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inet_interfaces = all

inet_interfaces = $myhostname

inet_interfaces = $myhostname, localhost

inet_interfaces = all

So that only one of the lines is used at any one time. However, no matter what I use and no matter how many times I restart Postfix I still get that error!

Any ideas?

Quote:

mail.gravex.co.uk MX 10 80.xx.xx.xx

Your MX record was totally wrong. First, it must point to an A record, not an IP, and second, it should have read
gravex.co.uk. (with a dot at the end), so the full MX record should have been something like:

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gravex.co.uk. MX 10 mail

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Mar 16 07:55:23 setanta postfix/smtp[17339]: 64F235F83: to=<myemailaddress@gmail.com>, relay=none, delay=0.07, delays=0.07/0.01/0/0, dsn=4.4.1, status=deferred (connect to
127.0.0.1[127.0.0.1]:10024: Connection refused)

Please restart amavisd and check that is running afterwards in the output of

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netstat -tap