Welcome emails not sent

[Phil]

Hey there,

My recent directadmin installation works great, but I have a small issue: it won't send emails... I've first noticed it when my customer did not get his welcome email, so I then proceded to try with 2 emails of mine (1 pop3, one gmail) and none worked.

After 24h, I've got this email to my admin email addy:

This message was created automatically by mail delivery software.
A message that you sent has not yet been delivered to one or more of its
recipients after more than 24 hours on the queue on ***.***.com.

The message identifier is: 1CKWOm-0000yD-Rg
The subject of the message is: Your account for ***.org is now ready for use.
The date of the message is: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 02:26:08 -0400

The address to which the message has not yet been delivered is:

***@europa.com
Delay reason: host lookup did not complete

and then the same for my other account.

Anyone knows what causes this?

Thank you very much!

 

[nobaloney]

First step...

Login to your system shell and try to use:

$ dig example.com mx

Where example.dot com should be replaced by the domain with the problem, and of course the $ sign simply means that you don't have to be root; it's NOT to be typed in (you probably know that, but lots of people don't).

If that works then try looking at the /var/log/exim/mainlog for errors, or failing finding any there, in the /var/spool/exim/msglog directory.

Jeff

 

[Phil]

Well... I'm a fool! Thanks alot for your help... I realized no nameservers where in the config file thus emails could not be sent... added 2 NS, works now

thanks again!