Mail bounced.. Host not found. Please help..

Hi,

I have setup postfix 2.1.4 in FreeBSD 5.3 Beta6. I've been trying to solve this problem for 2 days without success. It has no problem sending email to external mail server, but can't recveive email with the following error:

Oct 11 11:45:06 at postfix/smtp[89537]: 7BBC94198: to=<john@mydot.com>, relay=none, delay=0, status=bounced (Host or domain name not found. Name service error for name=mydot.com type=A: Host not found)

I don't think I need to define a A record for mydot.com, mydot.com is the top level domain name. a FQDN of my site is something like at.mydot.com and this is also the MX record as well.

I have also put the "$mydomain" option in the $mydestination line in main.cf file:

mydomain= mydot.com
masquerade_domains= $mydomain
mydestination = $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain, $mydomain

What can I do to solve this error?

Thanks
Sam

There's a Postfix configuration option (the name of which escapes me at the moment) that enables strict DNS checks. You could turn that off if it's on.

Also, perhaps putting an entry for mydot.com in your /etc/hosts file will substitute for an A record?

And, anyway, what are you doing with a domain that doesn't have an A record?

Colin