Topic: Host a virtual domain, but not e-mail

[Dan Williams]

Hi,
I need to host a virtual domain (which I know how to do).
But the owner of the domain, will still use their ISP for the POP and SMTP.

The problem is this, when I had the clients Virtual domain set up, and tried to send them an e-mail, it was coming to my admin account on the server.

I know why this is happening as well.

I wondered if someone could kindly guide me in what I have to do, so that the client domain is hosted by be, but their e-mail stays as it is on their ISP.

Seasons Greetings,
Dan

[Patrick Hickey]

Where is your DNS hosted? I would consider having a mailmapping put into place for the person(s) you are interested in redirecting.

There is likely some serious command line foo which others may be able to share, but in my world, easyDNS.com is the answer. Nice secure web GUI for this and all other DNS issues. If your DNS is hosted by a traditional ISP or service of some kind, I'm sure they can do the mailmaps for you.

regards,

patrick

[Tyrone Miles]

If you are sending e-mail from your e-smith server to that person you could have this problem. If that is not the peroblem, like the other person said you need to check the MX records of your DNS provider.

[Tyrone Miles]

Unless someone knows better because that domain is on your server and the DNS on your server sees that domain as being local, the only thing I can think is that you could make user names for people on that virtual domain and then forward those accounts to the e-mail address at the persons ISP..

If you already have people with simular names on your server you can use ths how to to seperate the user names to the right people:

http://www.myezserver.com/downloads/mitel/howto/vdomain-alias-howto.html

Some on on here may know better then me how to changed the domain so that the mail server won't look for it but I have never seen anyone do it.

[stephen noble]

doing it via external dns is one answer
my $25 vdomain rpm also does this
http://www.dungog.net/sme/products/vdomain.php

regards
stephen noble