Topic: Email Help

[phillerup@miltonsoffice.c]

I am having a problem with my new esmith 6.0
I can receive email on my accounts when they are addressed to one of the virtual domains, but if they are addressed to the main domain, the sender gets an error and I do not receive it.  Any ideas?

[SteveW]

Greetings,

I'm assuming the conditions you mentioned are when someone is attempting to send mail from outside your network to someone inside it.

In which case, are you certain your "A" record and Mail Server settings are set up correctly in your primary address' DNS entry?
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Steve

[phillerup@miltonsoffice.c]

Yes, you have the situation correct.  And nothing changed on the dns, the only difference has been the upgrade to 6.0
Was working when I had 5.5

[SteveW]

Very strange.

Ok, is the error message people are receiving when sending to the primary address generated by your server? Or is it not even resolving to your server?
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[Anonymous]

Ok, I sent an email from hotmail, as well as one from a different server (off site)
here are teh two responces:

Hotmail:

This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification.

Delivery to the following recipients failed.

       gannon@mydomain.com




 
 
From :    
Joe Friday <myemail@hotmail.com>  
   
To :    
gannon@mydomain.com  
   
Subject :    
email  
   
Sent :    
Wednesday, March 3, 2004 4:18 PM  
   
test

and the other server:

Your message did not reach some or all of the intended recipients.

      Subject:   test
      Sent:   3/4/2004 11:25 AM

The following recipient(s) could not be reached:

      'gannon@mydomain.com' on 3/4/2004 11:25 AM
            There was a SMTP communication problem with the recipient's email server.  Please contact your system administrator.
            <other.mailserver.net #5.5.0 smtp;550 Relaying not allowed>

[SteveW]

ok,

So I believe the problem is with your server or your ISP quite likely. Check this thread and see if it helps you. I'm not exactly sure here. http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=17102.msg66344#msg66344

Are you using your ISP's SMTP server? You should definitly try removing that if such is the case as discussed in the thread.

Also, I used to have a simliar problem to yours with one of my domains (virtual) whereby when anyone sent email to it, it rejected saying, "relaying not allowed." A couple days later, it worked no problem.

Anyway, hope this helps.
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[bushinc]

> <other.mailserver.net #5.5.0 smtp;550
> Relaying not allowed>

I'm going to assume that the server's exteral IP address and that the DNS server are setup correctly.  

It appears that your server doesn't recognize the primary domain on your server.  We could probably dig into the db files and figure it out, but it might be faster to just reconfigure.
You might try changing the domain to a bogus one from the server console, reboot, then change the domain back to the correct one.

Hopefully that will fix the problem.

If not, you can always try:
/sbin/e-smith/signal-event post-upgrade
/sbin/e-smith/signal-event reboot

If that doesn't fix it, I'm out of easy ideas.

Steve