[BlueOnyx:00580] Re: Strange BQ Sendmail behavior - fixed in BO?

[Lucas Peyatt - Ohio Web Hosting & Development]

The setting is "disable email for domain" not relay to another location. You may have better luck with 
the relay mail for domains setting in the system email area, I use it in a similar setup. just make sure 
the dns on your server does not resolve the MX for foo.com to a local IP address.

On Thu, 19 Feb 2009 20:27:43 +0000, Jeff Jones wrote
> Hi BO-mrades,
> 
> Had a re-occurrence of an age old issue with one of my BQ boxes today, 
>  and as I am soon to migrate this to BO - I was wondering if I'm going 
>  to be in for the same fun and games?
> 
> But it's highly likely that something went screwy with BQ - I would  
> just like to understand why it happened so I can perhaps avoid making  
> the same mistake again.
> 
> So I have a site - yes it's www.foo.com (you wonder why these guys are 
>  still customers - they have so many problems) but it's just a website,
>   there is no email locally. I checked the 'disable email for domain'  
> checkbox on the site - so I think it's all cool.
> 
> Next thing I know the boys at www.foo.com are on the phone, saying  
> that email from the website (via php mail) is bouncing. I take a look  
> in the mail logs, and sure enough I can see "contact at foo.com - user  
> unkown". So I figure out that email from the site is trying to be  
> delivered locally, even though I have checked that 'disable' email  
> check box for the site.
> 
> Struggling for a solution - I take a look in /etc/mail and look at the 
>  access file. I see the following:
> 
> ### Start Block Email for Virtual Site: www.foo.com   ###
> www.foo.com             ERROR:5.1.1:550 User unknown
> 
> ### END Block Email for Virtual Site: www.foo.com  ###
> 
> I then manually change it to this:
> 
> ### Start Block Email for Virtual Site: www.foo.com   ###
> www.foo.com             RELAY
> 
> ### END Block Email for Virtual Site: www.foo.com  ###
> 
> Restart sendmail - and hey presto - foo.com are getting email from the 
>  site again.
> 
> So I've found a work around - why am I bugging you all?
> 
> I guess I'm worried it might happen again with BO - could it?
> 
> How / why did this happen?
> 
> It's a real drag!
> 
> Jeff
> 
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