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[dsilvera]

Hi all
3 strange problems

1.
have setup a user - domain is not hosted by me, they are only using me for http: the mx records for the domain point elsewhere.
we have a cgi form on the server that sends an email to [email protected] - the problem is that the server seems to get the email first and put it in the users pop account(which is not being used), is there a simple way to solve this problem

2.
when I test cgi forms i send them to myself (a user on the box) i never get them - yet if i send them to a yahoo account it works fine. Anyone know the reason for this?

3.
since transfering some domains over to the new box some users start having problems re receiving email - i have issues myself - emails dont get get bounced back to the sender, spam assassin is set to tag not delete etc....the adult filter is disabled.
is there a server wide email rejection list?
is email rejected at server level, and if it is, how does it tell the difference between spam and non spam

hope you can help
thanks in advance

Dave

 

[nobaloney]

There have been lots of posts on this subject so I hope you'll forgive me for being brief...

If you're using your local nameserver to resolve DNS for the server (in other words, if it's listed in resolve.conf, then you need to make sure the DNS records for MX point to the proper server. You need to do this even if the rest of the world doesn't see the DNS on your server, because your server does.

Then you need to uncheck the box under MX Records in the user control panel (you can change the local mx records there as well).

Jeff