Mail of inactive domain is sent internally

[Desdinova]

Yeah title doesn't make too much sense I think. Anyway, there's a problem I've been experiencing numerous times.

What happens is this;
I get an order for a domain (say domain.com). The site is currently active on another server. What I do, is I create a user account for this domain. DNS gets set up and I have a nice little spot to work out all my programming and scripts for this domain.

When I try mailing the customer at domain.com, directadmin finds the domain in it's own zonefiles, sending the mail internally, without checking the active nameservers of the domain. Basically, I am unable to contact the client when sending from a server where domain.com has an account (inactive) set up.

 

[nobaloney]

Three ways to resolve it.

1) change the settings for MX for the user, so the mail isn't hosted on your server; if you're not sure how to do that search these forums. Then of course you can't setup and test email until your client is ready to move.

2) use your ISP's mailserver to write to this particular client.

3) Use a separate mailserver for your own outgoing email.

Now I use #2. I use KMail on my Desktop; it gives me the option of choosing an outgoing server with each email. My default is one of my servers, but I can easily switch to the one from my ISP.

Eventually I'll use #3.

Jeff