[BlueOnyx:00614] Re: Email problems - 554 554 5.0.0 rewrite: excessiverecursion

[Gerald Waugh]

On Sun, 22 Feb 2009, Mark Jaggers wrote:

> I just tried sending another email this morning to that domain and I am
> still getting the excessive recursion error
>
I just did
    dig evilshenanigans.com
And received;
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 0
;; flags: qr rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

Note; the ANSWER: 0

Gerald

>
>
> On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 4:46 AM, Taco Scargo <taco at scargo.nl> wrote:
>
>> Did the problem go away now ?
>>
>> DNS seems to be setup fine both domains, although it only has one
>> nameserver
>> defined, which is a very bad practice.
>>
>> Taco
>>
>> On Sun, 22 Feb 2009 00:57:38 -0600, Mark Jaggers wrote
>>> Thanks for your help.  One of the domains in question is
>> evilshenanigans.com
>>> which is hosted on my server with domain of shadowpixels.com.  Today
>>> I went ahead and changed back to hosting the dns on my server rather
>>> than using godaddy.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Mark
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: blueonyx-bounces at blueonyx.it [mailto:blueonyx-
>>> bounces at blueonyx.it] On Behalf Of Taco Scargo Sent: Saturday,
>>>  February 21, 2009 1:42 PM To: BlueOnyx General Mailing List;
>>> BlueOnyx General Mailing List Subject: [BlueOnyx:00605] Re: Email
>>> problems - 554 554 5.0.0 rewrite: excessiverecursion
>>>
>>> Mark,
>>>
>>> I think your problem will go away much quicker if you let us know
>>> the domain in question, we could check the dns settings then, making
>>> sure there are no cnames for either the domain or the mailserver
>>> hostname etc.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Taco
>>>
>>> On Sat, 21 Feb 2009 11:19:31 -0800, Ken Marcus - Precision Web
>>> Hosting, Inc. wrote
>>>>>>
>>>> From: Mark Jaggers
>>>>
>>>> I just moved my sites over from a bluequartz server to a blueonyx
>>>> server and since then I have been having problems with email.
>>>> Whenever I try sending an email to any of the users on any of the
>>>> sites I have I get a bounce back that says
>>>>
>>>> 554 554 5.0.0 rewrite: excessive recursion (max 50), ruleset
>>>> canonify (state 13).
>>>>
>>>> I have looked for various solutions and none of them have worked.  I
>>>> imagine it is a configuration issue, so any help would be appreciate.
>>>>
>>>> FYI: I do have dns turned on on this machine but all my sites are
>>>> pointing to godaddy for dns.
>>>>
>>>> thanks
>>>> Mark
>>>>
>>>> <<
>>>>
>>>> Mark
>>>>
>>>> In your email server aliases field put
>>>> domain.com
>>>> mail.domain.com
>>>>
>>>> For your MX records within your Godaddy.com account make sure you
>>>> have an MX record for both domain.com  --> mail.domain.com and
>>>> www.domain.com   --> mail.domain.com
>>>>
>>>> That should fix it.
>>>>
>>>> If it still does not work yet, then possibly the DNS on your server
>>>> is not asking Godaddy for the DNS / MX record info because it thinks
>>>> it is authoritative for your domains.  Possibly, if your local DNS
>>>>  thinks it knows what the MX records should be for the domain, and
>>>> what it "knows"  is wrong, then I think that could also cause the
>>>> problem.  In that case, add the  MX records domain.com  -->
>>> mail.domain.com
>>>> and
>>>> www.domain.com   --> mail.domain.com
>>>> for each domain, or delete the DNS records from your local server.
>>>>
>>>> ----
>>>> Ken Marcus
>>>> Ecommerce Web Hosting by
>>>> Precision Web Hosting, Inc.
>>>> http://www.precisionweb.net
>>>>
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