External mailserver problem.

[spirit]

Hi All,

I used Google Apps for one off my domains.
Sometime mail delivered in the old mailbox (local) and not in mijn Google account.

I unchecked this: Use this server to handle my emails. If not, change the MX record and uncheck this option

Off course i also changed the mx records to the records form google.

Someone an idea?

 

[nobaloney]

It make take days (perhaps even up to a week) for all old references to your box to disappear from DNS and from mailservers.

If it's been longer than that and this is still happening, then it's most likely happening because some mailservers are ignoring your mx records and delivering to A records. There's no way you can fix that. You probably can figure out how to redirect that email with custom changes to exim.conf, but generally such email is spam.

Jeff

 

[spirit]

Hi Heff,

I did those changes for more then two months. Almost all mail are delivered in the google mailbox.

The most problems are email with local email sending from PHP.

 

[nobaloney]

If it's local mail being sent by PHP then it may have something to do with how you send mail.

First, to make sure the server knows to not deliver mail locally, check the box and save, then wait at least one minute, and then again uncheck it and save.

Make sure your PHP clients with the problem are sending mail using exim. Sendmail injection should be the same as exim on your server; make sure the sendmail binary isn't really a binary, but instead a link to exim. Make sure that when connecting to port 25 on localhost it's exim answering.

Jeff