Setting this up right.

[zammbi]

Hello all
I'm hoping I'm able to get some help setting up my mail server. I'm new to setting this up so I'm getting fairly lost on my problem...
I just found out my new site (www.pimpmypc.geek.nz) was having trouble sending emails to new users.
So I logged onto the email area and saw many fail messages errors. So I tried email manually and try sending to my hotmail and yep same problem....

This message was created automatically by mail delivery software.

A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its
recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:

[email protected]
SMTP error from remote mailer after MAIL FROM:<[email protected]> SIZE=1844:
host mx1.hotmail.com [65.54.245.8]: 550 Your e-mail was rejected for policy
reasons on this gateway. Reasons for rejection may be related to content such as
obscene language, graphics, or spam-like characteristics (or) other reputation
problems. For sender troubleshooting information, please go to
http://postmaster.msn.com. Please note:
if you are an end-user please contact your E-mail/Internet Service Provider for
assistance.

------ This is a copy of the message, including all the headers. ------

Return-path: <[email protected]>
Received: from [127.0.0.1] (helo=snickers.managemyservices.com)
by snickers.managemyservices.com with esmtp (Exim 4.50)
id 1IIi3n-0000NN-FU
for [email protected]; Wed, 08 Aug 2007 09:42:35 +0000
Received: from 203.211.73.130
(SquirrelMail authenticated user [email protected])
by snickers.managemyservices.com with HTTP;
Wed, 8 Aug 2007 09:42:35 -0000 (GMT)
Message-ID: <63116.203.211.73.130.1186566155.squirrel@snickers.managemyservices.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 09:42:35 -0000 (GMT)
Subject: test
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Reply-To: [email protected]
User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.5
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
X-Priority: 3 (Normal)
Importance: Normal

test

But when I tried sending to my gmail and that seemed to be working.
I searched around for my error and saw something about http://www.dnsstuff.com

Which I get two fails.

Connect to mail servers ERROR: I could not complete a connection to any of your mailservers!

mail.pimpmypc.geek.nz: Could not connect without glue or A record.
If this is a timeout problem, note that the DNSreport only waits about 40 seconds for responses, so your mail *may* work fine in this case but you will need to use testing tools specifically designed for such situations to be certain.

Reverse DNS entries for MX records
ERROR: None of your mail server(s) seem to have reverse DNS (PTR) entries (I didn't get any responses for them). RFC1912 2.1 says you should have a reverse DNS for all your mail servers. It is strongly urged that you have them, as many mailservers will not accept mail from mailservers with no reverse DNS entry. You can double-check using the 'Reverse DNS Lookup' tool at the DNSstuff site (it contacts your servers in real time; the reverse DNS lookups in the DNS report use our local caching DNS server).

How do I set this up right so I'm able to send to hotmail?

My DSN record in directadmin is:

ftp A 72.36.219.122
localhost A 127.0.0.1
mail A 72.36.219.122
pimpmypc.geek.nz. A 72.36.219.122
pop A 72.36.219.122
www A 72.36.219.122
pimpmypc.geek.nz. NS ns3.managemyservices.com.
pimpmypc.geek.nz. NS ns4.managemyservices.com.
mail MX 10
pimpmypc.geek.nz. TXT "v=spf1 a mx ip4:72.36.219.122 ?all"

and I use www.zoneedit.com for my DSN server.

Thx in advance for any help.

 

[mike_p]

Perhaps the msn filters are rejecting any mail form you becasue you have the word 'pimp' in your domain name?

 

[zammbi]

Well I hope not, but I do have the error of "None of your mail server(s) seem to have reverse DNS " but I don't have a clue what to do to solve this problem.

 

[nobaloney]

Reverse DNS has to be set up by your connection provider.

Are you using qmail? If so, then you're not using DirectAdmin. This is a DirectAdmin forum.

Jeff

 

[zammbi]

I'm using the email I created [email protected] which I use Squirrelmail.
I know this is a DA forum heh. But so far I've got no help at all to solve this.

 

[zammbi]

Ah finally got some help from my host. The first message was them saying its hotmail's fault, then I explained in detail and then they replied that they can set up the reverse DNS, I just need to wait for a tech to set this up, finally I might be able to send emails soon!