dig standingstart.net

; <<>> DiG 9.3.6-P1-RedHat-9.3.6-16.P1.el5_7.1 <<>> standingstart.net

;; global options: printcmd

;; Got answer:

;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 39663

;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:

;standingstart.net. IN A

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:

standingstart.net. 86380 IN SOA ns1.linode.com. chris.pixelatedphotographer.com. 2012021195 14400 14400 1209600 86400

;; Query time: 0 msec

;; SERVER: 74.207.241.5#53(74.207.241.5)

;; WHEN: Sun Feb 12 00:41:32 2012

;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 113

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Layman's terms; you did not add in a A Record for the "@" root of your domain name. You need a default ip, you only set one for "www" subdomain that points to; 178.79.183.119

PS;

You haven't set any text records for;

1. TXT verification

2. SPF (email anti-spoof)

3. DKIM encryption with gmail.

Thanks for the reply - I really appreciate it.

So what exactly do I have to put in an A Record? By root do you mean 'standingstart.net' - if I enter that into the box it disappears.

And cheers for the gmail info, I'll add that the next time I'm there.

You fixed it, good job! :P

Haha Awesome - I had no idea that I had lol

I have gone through setting gmail up and it all seems to be working. I can send and receive email via gmail though when I try to use the gmail address to send mail via the forum I get errors:

Zend_Mail_Protocol_Exception: 'smtp.gmail.com ' appears to be a DNS hostname but cannot match TLD against known list, 'smtp.gmail.com ' does not appear to be a valid local network name - library/Zend/Mail/Protocol/Abstract.php:145
Generated By: crazyfruitbat, 17 minutes ago

> Stack Trace

0 standingstart.net/publichtml/library/Zend/Mail/Protocol/Smtp.php(156): ZendMailProtocolAbstract->__construct('smtp.gmail.com ', 465)

1 standingstart.net/publichtml/library/Zend/Mail/Protocol/Smtp/Auth/Login.php(76): ZendMailProtocolSmtp->__construct('smtp.gmail.com ', 465, Array)

2 standingstart.net/publichtml/library/Zend/Mail/Transport/Smtp.php(198): ZendMailProtocolSmtpAuthLogin->__construct('smtp.gmail.com ', 465, Array)

3 standingstart.net/publichtml/library/Zend/Mail/Transport/Abstract.php(348): ZendMailTransportSmtp->_sendMail()

4 standingstart.net/publichtml/library/Zend/Mail.php(1194): ZendMailTransportAbstract->send(Object(Zend_Mail))

5 standingstart.net/publichtml/library/XenForo/Mail.php(170): ZendMail->send()

6 standingstart.net/publichtml/library/XenForo/Mail.php(145): XenForoMail->sendMail(Object(Zend_Mail))

7 standingstart.net/publichtml/library/XenForo/Mail.php(197): XenForoMail->send('gareth@gma…', 'Gareth J.', Array, '', '', '')

8 standingstart.net/publichtml/library/XenForo/Model/Conversation.php(855): XenForoMail->queue('gareth@gma…', 'Gareth J.')

9 standingstart.net/publichtml/library/XenForo/Model/Conversation.php(712): XenForoModel_Conversation->insertConversationAlert(Array, Array, 'reply', Array, Array, Array)

10 standingstart.net/publichtml/library/XenForo/DataWriter/ConversationMaster.php(304): XenForoModel_Conversation->addConversationReplyToRecipients(Array, Array, Array)

11 standingstart.net/publichtml/library/XenForo/DataWriter.php(1385): XenForoDataWriterConversationMaster->postSave()

12 standingstart.net/publichtml/library/XenForo/DataWriter/ConversationMessage.php(144): XenForoDataWriter->save()

13 standingstart.net/publichtml/library/XenForo/DataWriter.php(1385): XenForoDataWriterConversationMessage->postSave()

14 standingstart.net/publichtml/library/XenForo/ControllerPublic/Conversation.php(858): XenForoDataWriter->save()

15 standingstart.net/publichtml/library/XenForo/FrontController.php(310): XenForoControllerPublic_Conversation->actionInsertReply()

16 standingstart.net/publichtml/library/XenForo/FrontController.php(132): XenForoFrontController->dispatch(Object(XenForo_RouteMatch))

17 standingstart.net/publichtml/index.php(13): XenForoFrontController->run()

18 {main}

Any idea?

Either the logging has a bug, or there's a space at the end of "smtp.gmail.com" in your configuration.