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

[Terry Dennis <terry@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If the regular mail works fine then you should check your Formail script
setup. It may be set by default to not forward mail from the server it is
installed on. If this is the case, any mail submissions thru that form will
never leave that server. You could pull your hair out for days trying to
figure it out. This is an easy fix, just edit the Formail script parameter
that allows forwarding off of that server.


Eric Marcussen wrote:

>   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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