[BlueOnyx:08808] Re: Revisiting a topic - email

[Ken - Precision Web Hosting, Inc]

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From: "James" <james at slor.net>
To: "BlueOnyx General Mailing List" <blueonyx at mail.blueonyx.it>
Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2011 6:33 AM
Subject: [BlueOnyx:08804] Revisiting a topic - email


> There was a recent thread by a user who had an issue with off-server 
> email.
> His issue ended up solved by some routing fix I think, but I still have a
> problem that I believe was what folks here were initially trying to help 
> him
> solve.  Here's the scenario:
>
> - I have multiple domains on my BX server, of course, let's call 2 of them
> offsite.com and onsite.com.
> - offsite.com and onsite.com were both initially set up in BX to service
> email for their respective domains.
> - Recently, I made a change to host email for offsite.com somewhere else
> while leaving the web hosting on my BX server.  Changed MX records at the
> registrar and all that good stuff.
> - So, email coming in from the average joe finds its way to my new email
> host quite nicely.  However, email from onsite.com (all hosted on BX 
> server
> still) to offsite.com wants to get delivered locally on the BX server.
> - I tried simply ticking the "Disable Email for Domain" checkbox for
> offsite.com, and all that did was make things a little worse: any mail
> headed for offsite.com from onsite.com is now returned with "no such user
> here", and PHP email functionality in www.onsite.com completely fails (I'm
> not sure why that last one is, because it seems completely unrelated to
> anything regarding offsite.com).
>
> Perhaps Michael or someone who has been through this sort of transition
> before can chime on in the proper way to solve it?  Do I need to just
> manually go through the virtusertable and remove all the offsite.com 
> aliases
> as another user suggested he had to do with BQ?  Is there a more proper
> solution?
>
> Thanks!
> James
>
>

Don't select "Disable Email for Domain"
Just remove all the entries from the "Email server aliases" field for 
offsite.com
Then restart sendmail.

I do it all the time.


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Ken Marcus
Precision Web Hosting, Inc.
http://www.precisionweb.net