RE: [cobalt-users] Re: SOLVED : RaQ4i : MX problem : Local configuration error

["Phil Beynon" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > "MX list for www.designwall.co.uk. points back to pridns.artejano.com"

> Get rid of the CNAMES. Just create A records. To share, just add the
> other domain in the site settings under web server and email alias.
> Under the web alias just add www.designwall.co.uk and designwall.co.uk
> add designwall.co.uk as an email alias. If you want, create an MX record
> of mail.designwall.co.uk and an A record for mail.designwall.co.uk.  You
> shouldn't have to modify any other records.

Fantastic and many thanks. Problem resolved with minimal hair loss!

The specific step that solved the issue was adding the domain name
(designwall.co.uk) as an email alias on the OTHER website using the same IP.
I hadn't thought about doing this.

It appears that for email to work, where you have multiple sites on a single
IP, you must add all the email aliases into the first site you added for
that IP. I don't know if anyone else has come across this problem, or
whether it is becase our RaQs are on private internal IP addresses which are
mapped through a NAT/Firewall.

I do plan to replace all our CNAMEs with A records, but one step at a time!

Thanks again
--
Richard Abrams
Artejano Design and Marketing


Richard,
I've got about 40+ sites on the same IP address and never have had to do
that and they are all working fine.
There is something else going on there on your server.

Phil


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