[BlueOnyx:12101] Re: Off server email issue

[Ken - Precision Web Hosting, Inc]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lew Berry" <LCBerry at lcbconsulting.net>
To: "BlueOnyx General Mailing List" <blueonyx at mail.blueonyx.it>
Sent: Friday, January 25, 2013 5:08 PM
Subject: [BlueOnyx:12100] Re: Off server email issue


> >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
>
> <<
> <
> <
> <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
>

If you remove the email server aliases, and the mx record is set to your 
server, then email to them will bounce.

----
Ken Marcus