Unable to Email Agenda

Club 1169

We are unable to email our agenda. Meeting is tomorrow and we need to find people to file many roles still. After pushing send on the website, it appears to complete but the email is never received.

Please assist.

Thanks,

-Mitch Olinsky

your domain www.businessandprofessionaltoastmasters.org is not setup properly for email you are missing the MX records.

mail.domain.ext A 50.19.253.65 (This is used with the MX record below to enable email to get to the FreeToastHost server.)

1 MX record for mail

domain.ext MX-10 mail.domain.ext (This tells the registrar how to direct email to an email address containing the custom domain name.)


You can use your 1169.toastmastersclubs.org to send the agenda until your domain has been corrected
I sent it out and I can see it being delivered

Jul 11 01:36:36 toastmastersclubs sendmail[682]: v6B1aZhX000676: to=<molinsky@jpefcu.org>, ctladdr= (501/502), delay=00:00:01, xdelay=00:00:01, mailer=esmtp, pri=137775, relay=mx.usa.net. [165.212.65.113], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent (Mail accepted (184VgkBKK2192Ms8))
Jul 11 01:42:38 toastmastersclubs sendmail[3676]: v6B1gXrH003672: to=<molinsky@jpefcu.org>, ctladdr= (501/502), delay=00:00:05, xdelay=00:00:05, mailer=esmtp, pri=137775, relay=mx.usa.net. [165.212.65.113], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent (Mail accepted (014VgkBQM8896Ms6))
Jul 11 02:14:32 toastmastersclubs sendmail[23525]: v6B2EVu1023522: to=<molinsky@jpefcu.org>, ctladdr= (501/502), delay=00:00:01, xdelay=00:00:01, mailer=esmtp, pri=132472, relay=mx.usa.net. [165.212.65.113], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent (Mail accepted (678Vgkcof8240Ms1)

Brian,

Attached is a screenshot of our GoDaddy Records. What exactly is wrong? Or else, what should we have for our Type, Name, and Value?

Thanks,

-Mitch

Mitch, Brian is right that their is something fishy about your DNS record(s) for email. To my eye using the digwebinterface.com tool, it looks like you have an extra bogus MX record. dig is considered an authoritative tool--this is just the web based version of it.

For context, my club also uses GoDaddy for its custom domain: mindfulcommunicators.org

When I dig the mail.mindfulcommunicators.org records I get (w/ ANY option):
When I dig the mail.businessandprofessionaltoastmasters.org records I get (w/ ANY option): Note the extra record which is self-referential (circular). This is a key difference from my club's DNS which uses GoDaddy, is well established and whose email works fine. I am a bit puzzled how you managed to get this extra record. You should talk to GoDaddy customer support about getting this extra bogus MX record removed.

To be complete, there is another MX record (dns is hierarchical) found by doing a dig on businessandprofessionaltoastmasters.org (w/ ANY option) which looks ok to me:
The MX record should only exist for the top-level domain.

My club's top level domain DNS records (again... GoDaddy is our registrar)... pretty close:

Bottom line, if you have any issues w/ MX records, then you will have email issues.

Thank everyone.

I added a second mail record yesterday. Today, our site was completely down so I called GoDaddy support. Apparently there was a global internet outage...fun day for support.

Anyway, they looked at the mindfulcommunicators site and walked me through removing both mail records. There is still an A record for mail.domain.ext. When the website comes back up, I'll see if the issue is resolved.

I'm still coureous as to why email worked for many months, then all of a sudden stopped.

Keep you fingers crossed for us.
-Mitch