[BlueOnyx:04979] Re: disable all email

[Abdul Rashid Abdullah]

If I was smarter in how to do this and could code it myself, I would assume
the best solution would be to parse the local-host-names file and remove
www.whatever.com and whatever.com from the file when a checkbox of "Use an
External Email Server" is checked.

Regards,

Rashid


On 7/7/10 9:52 AM, "Darrell D. Mobley" <dmobley at uhostme.com> wrote:

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: blueonyx-bounces at blueonyx.it [mailto:blueonyx-bounces at blueonyx.it]
>> On Behalf Of Michael Stauber
>> Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2010 5:30 AM
>> To: BlueOnyx General Mailing List
>> Subject: [BlueOnyx:04972] Re: disable all email
>> 
>> Yes, because /etc/mail/local-host-names is the wrong place for that.
>> 
>> When you tick the box for "disable all email" for a site, then the
>> following lines gets added to /etc/mail/access:
>> 
>> ### Start Block Email for Virtual Site: site4.smd.net ###
>> www.site-in-question.com           ERROR:5.1.1:550 User unknown
>> ### END Block Email for Virtual Site: site4.smd.net ###
>> 
>> That'll then make sure that all email to that site is rejected with a
>> "User unknown" message.
> 
> Your response snipped an important part of Bret's post, which is the last
> part of the following sentence starting with "so that forms...":
> 
> "The server should be set up to NOT recieve email for those domains by
> removing or commenting out the entries in local-host-names so that forms or
> other system generated emails will be sent to the dns resolved mx record for
> that domain."
> 
> His comments indicate that by not removing the domain in question from the
> local-host-names file for sites that have email disabled in the GUI, email
> generated by website forms or system-generated email would never make it to
> the proper email server for the domain in question.
> 
> Does email generated at the system level or email generated by someone
> submitting a website form for a given domain get routed correctly in the
> situation you described?  If I have elected to separate my email solution
> from my website, email generated by my website should still be able to make
> its way to me.
> 
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