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Title: Deleted virtual domain still coming back to haunt me!!!
Post by: Nick Texidor on December 07, 2001, 02:18:51 AM

Ok, I have run into a small problem.

I had a virtual domain added to e-smith, that I have subsequently removed because the site and email is now being hosted externally.

However, I have just sent an email out to a mailing list via another SMTP server within our network, and mail's to username@primary.domain were not received by the users.  

I checked the SMTP logs from the SMTP server, and found the transcription of when the SMTP server sent messages to the e-smith server...  strange thing is, the e-smith server provides a response to the other SMTP server of RCPT To:' and so the messages are being sent to the email server that is now handling the deleted virtual server's email.

Help, what do I do?   I have noticed a lot of strange domain's appearing in email headers... one email came up with a domain name that I had entered into the HOSTNAMES function that pointed to an internal web site on an NT box...

Can anyone shed some light?

Thanks

Nick

Title: Re: Deleted virtual domain still coming back to haunt me!!!
Post by: dave on December 10, 2001, 06:08:29 PM

i've had the same prob.  pain in the butt.
i tried backing up, then reinstalling the whole system and then restoring - the "bad" virtual was stil there after restore.

as a new to intermediate linux user, i've got a hunch as to how to fix the prob but am not adept enough to do it safely - it may involve making a tarball of the /home directory then reinstalling from scratch and then very carefully configuring the system EXACTLY the way it was before EXCEPT for the virtual in question.  then restore the /home directory from your tarball and delete the virtual from the /ibay directory.

my guess is that would work.