Hi!
Maybe I am misunderstanding something and I am somewhat rusty in the matter (I used to be a mail server admin and DNS admin years ago) but there is a thing I am not getting… Why do you want to use Microsoft’s or Godaddy’s mail servers to relay your email, can’t you just simply use the one of your ISP? Usually if you are in their IP space you frequently don’t need to authenticate yourself.
By the way, it is not saying it cannot resolve the server hostname, it is saying it cannot get an MX (record) for that hostname…
The MX record is the record that says which host name receives mail for a domain or subdomain. An hostname itself is considered to be a subdomain and by default, unless you put brackets on each side of it (ie []), Postfix tries to get the MX record of that subdomain/hostname.
see http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#relayhost
so you would need to type something like
as server name if you reallllllly want to use Godaddy’s mail servers…
(Maybe FreePBX should add those brackets by itself if that is indeed the problem…)
As for the smtpout.where.secureserver.net deanot26508 mentioned, don’t use this… They aliased smtpout.secureserver.net to smtpout.where.secureserver.net using a DNS CNAME record (ie an alias).
If you have dig installed issuing the following command
dig smtpout.secureserver.net ANY
should, amongst other things, output this:
;; ANSWER SECTION:
smtpout.secureserver.net. 30 IN CNAME smtpout.where.secureserver.net.
That’s where that “where” is coming from… (-;
Good luck and have a nice day!
Nick