Re: [cobalt-users] RAQ3 E-mail Recursion

["Jeff Lasman" <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Dr. Peter McClean Millar" wrote:

> I have 11 sites hosted on the RAQ3 all working fine. The domain Millar.org
> is hosted by another company in the states. This will expire next week so I
> set up millar.org on the RAQ as per normal. I added all my family as users
> and changed the dns servers to point to the RAQ (should kick in 48 hours
> later).

How did you do this?  I just did an nslookup for the mx record on
millar.org, and here's what I got:

millar.org   preference = 30, mail exchanger = mail.millar.org

For the IP# of mail.millar.org, I got:

mail.millar.org internet address = 213.239.42.122

Is that your IP#?  If so, then the MX record properly points to your
RaQ.

> As soon as I set up millar.org on the RAQ every domain and user on
> it gets email recursion. If I switch off accept e-mail for the millar.org
> domain, it's fine.

Please explain what you mean by excursion.  Give us the exact error
message you're getting, please.

> at the minute the admin e-mail for the RAQ redirects to pete@xxxxxxxxxxx I
> looked at etc/virtusertable but it seems fine...no dodgy entries.

Can you grep out all the lines including "pete@xxxxxxxxxx", or even just
"pete" and send them to us as well?

> I couldn't find /etc/mail.aliases as suggested by another RAQ3 user

On the RaQ3 the file is /etc/aliases.

> but the
> other aliases files I found look ok too.

The RaQ doesn't use the alias files for users; it uses the
/etc/virtusertable file.

> Is it a phenomenon of the site and e-mail being in use at the minute? I set
> it up already because I thought that I wouldn't lose any mail because the
> RAQ Millar would catch the other hosts Millar mail as soon as the RAQ
> Millar came live. It's a real ballacher because Millar is the site and
> e-mail I need the most.

Shouldn't matter that another location is accepting email for
millar.org.

When you set up millar.org, what hostname did you use?

Look at "Control Panel | Sendmail | Parameters.  Presuming that you used
"www" as your hostname, is "www.millar.org" in your Host/Domain Aliases
field?  If not, put it in, and save changes.

> I had the problem when I initially got the RAQ and was totally in the dark
> about all this stuff (little bit of light getting through now !!!!!) and
> just deleted millar.org. That cured the problem but now I do need to set it
> up. It just seems strange that millar.org is the only site to cause the
> problem. I have deleted it again and reinstalled it again but still the
> recursion comes back.

If you're still not getting anywhere, please post what I've asked for
and let us know.

Jeff
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