[BlueOnyx:12100] Re: Off server email issue

[Lew Berry]

>From: blueonyx-bounces at mail.blueonyx.it [mailto:blueonyx-bounces at mail.blueonyx.it] On Behalf Of Rod Morgan
>Sent: Friday, January 25, 2013 6:11 PM
>To: blueonyx at mail.blueonyx.it
>Subject: [BlueOnyx:12099] Re: Off server email issue
>
> First, thanks for the help...removing the email server alias solved the issue.
>
>At the slight risk of creating consternation with the list members, I'd like to suggest that we consider modifying the behavior 'Disable Email for Domain' checkbox.  I propose that checking the option >causes the same behavior as removing the email server alias.  It's counter-intuitive to me that "disabling email" doesn't really disable email but causes email to bounce.  This is not a big issue, but >might make the GUI more intuitive to new users of BlueOnyx.
>
>Respectfully, Rod Morgan
>
-->--- Original Message ----- 
>From: jeffrey Pellin - PX2
>
>Hi,
>This is an ongoing issue for us too.
>Is there any chance in future we can have an option on the GUI to make a 
>client web only, email only, or web and email. Can't believe that we are the 
>only other business with web clients with off server email, and with email 
>only clients that would find this feature useful.
>Regards
>Jeffrey


>On 23.01.2013 23:03, Gerald Waugh wrote:
>On 01/22/2013 09:32 PM, Rod Morgan wrote: I have a new customer that wants 
>to host a php-based site on our server while maintaining their current email 
>services provided by Google. DNS is correctly configured.  The site was 
>configured with email disabled.  The problem occurs when their php-based 
>contact page sends email using the mail() command to users in the same 
>domain.  The server tries to deliver the mail locally instead of using SMTP 
>to send it.  I have temporarily resolved the issue by editing the access and 
>virtusertable files in /etc/mail and rebuilding the .db files.  However, I 
>expect his is only a temporary fix as the BlueOnyx scripts will probably 
>recreate the entries in both files at some point.  Is there a permanent 
>solution that I should have implemented?
>
>Rod Morgan
>remove email server alias in the GUI
>make sure the MX records are setup to access gmail
>
>-- 
>Gerald

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<It actually does work perfectly as it is.
<
<First, in the GUI, don't click to disable email (that is designed to make 
<the email bounce).
<Second, If you remove the email server aliases in the GUI, then the MX 
<records will always deliver to whatever other server they are directed to.
<Permenent and easy.
<
<----
<Ken Marcus
<http://www.precisionwebhosting.com


The problem with that is a lot of us  are using this as a hosting platform. Some are using web only or email only. When hosting goes unpaid on an email only domain, the bounce feature tends to get the attention (via phone call etc. from the customers of the bounced domain) of whomever is delinquent. No reason to change what already works. A couple mouse clicks is much easier than dropping to root to make the necessary adjustments to garner their attention. 

Lew Berry, MCSE, MCT, CSSA
LCB Consulting Inc.
Systems Engineer
450-106 State Road 13 N, #205
St Johns FL, 32259
LCBerry at LCBConsulting.net
(904) 482-1405
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