Re: SV: [cobalt-developers] DNS / email problem

[Eric Marcussen <ideas@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

 Good Afternoon All,

My company hosts the web files for a client, however, another company holds 
the DNS for this name & controls their email (lets say www.abc.com). The 
company that owns the DNS only points their DNS name to our server via an 
IP address.

Here is my problem:

Like I said, we setup a site on our server called www.abc.com only to host 
the files.   There are no A, Reverse, or MX records set up for this 
site.   The company that owns the domain www.abc.com points the domain to 
our server via IP address.

We have several forms (using formmail at the current time) set up though 
out their site.    For example, on one of the forms, we set the "recipient" 
to "johndoe@xxxxxxx".  This email address, in turn, forwards to 4 email 
addresses: 2 external addresses and 2 abc.com addresses.  The problem is 
that the email is NOT being forwarded to two abc.com addresses.

I am thinking that since we have a site set up on our server called 
abc.com, the email is never leaving our server because it sees a abc.com 
set up on it.

I tried to change the name of the site on my server to abc1.com, thinking 
that if it only reaches our site via IP, the site name wouldn't 
matter.  Unfortunatley, it does.

Any ideas why this isn't working??

If I confused anyone, I'm sorry.  I am even more confused after writing 
this email.

Thanx,
<<Eric>>

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