Re: [cobalt-users] accepting mail for a domain

["Steven Werby" <steven-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

dylan <dylan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I would like to setup a subdomain of -
>
> domain.com.au
>
> and accept mail for it, However when I try I get the message 'another site
> is already accepting email for this domain' although   domain.com.au
> certainly does not accept mail (that is done by another server -
> mail.domain.com.au ) It is probably a subdomain that is accepting it.
>
> can I -
>
> a) find the subdomain accepting mail for domain.com.au by looking through a
> conf file rather than waiting for the GUI which crawls along...

Yes, look in virtusertable.  Do:

cat /etc/virtusertable | grep -n @domain.com.au

You'll see a line like the one below.  It's the host accepting mail for the
domain name.

@domain.com.au  %1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

> b) configure subdomains of domain.com.au to accept mail individually?
>     eg user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Yes, just *don't* click "accept mail for domain".

> I would like to be able to send mail to username@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> as well as user@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (which resolves to another server).

Do you mean you want these to be 2 separate email addresses?  If so then you'll
need an MX record for both members.domain.com.au and domain.com.au.

> Does the
> MX record for domain.com.au  override any MX record I create for a subdomain
> of that?

It doesn't work like that.  The MX records are independent of each other.

--
Steven Werby {steven-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx}