Use external email server

[Stone1555]

I have my site and a few clients sites hosted on my webserver running ehcp. For email they are using third party options. When a email is sent from the site to a user via a form or app the email never makes it(users email is something@blank.com).

so blank@blank.com on server trying to send to adam@blank.com will not work. if i send the email to another domain (doesn't matter if its on the same server or not) it works.

Any ideas?

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[ehcpdeveloper]

check following:
<li> what you mean by 3rd party? a webmail instead of squirrelmail? or something other than postfix? or other than ehcp? is email hosted on same server or another server ?

<li> does your server have real ip or internal private ip ? if private, hosts file needs to be updated (ehcp->options->update hosts file)

<li> what your logs say ?

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[Stone1555]

My email is hosted through a different server / service (gmail)\

IP is static outside

Email to and from works fine. It's just when the server tries to email from localhost to the user it never sends anything. If i change the email in the app im using to another address it works fine.


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[ehcpdeveloper]

can you write your dns template/dns records here ?
also your domainname ? i will check a little.

most probably, you have an internal dns resolution issue in your server.

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[Stone1555]

domain is techallogy.com

$TTL 86400
@ IN SOA ns.{domainname}. {dnsemail} (
{serial} ; Serial
10800 ; Refresh
1200 ; Retry
86400 ; Expire
86400 ) ; Minimum

{domainname}. IN NS ns.{domainname}.
ns.{domainname}. IN A {dnsip}
ns1.{domainname}. IN A {dnsip}
ns2.{domainname}. IN A {dnsip}
dns.{domainname}. IN A {dnsip}
dns1.{domainname}. IN A {dnsip}
dns2.{domainname}. IN A {dnsip}
{domainname}. IN A {webip}
mail.{domainname}. IN A {mailip}
smtp.{domainname}. IN A {webip}
webmail.{domainname}. IN A {webip}
ftp.{domainname}. IN CNAME {domainname}.
www.{domainname}. IN CNAME {domainname}.
{domainname}. IN MX 1 aspmx.l.google.com.
{domainname}. IN TXT "v=spf1 a mx"

{customdns}

* IN A {webip}

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it was {domainname}. IN MX 10 mail.{domainname}. for my mx record. I changed it per another post i read.


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[ehcpdeveloper]

most probably, your server has dns resolution issue, relted to itself.
your dns of ehcp should be working, no problem with it.

in your server, try this, in console:

dig any yourdomain.com

can you see mx record as gmail ?

if not,
open /etc/resolv.conf of your server,
put
nameserver localhost
nameserver anotherone_provided_by_your_isp


this way, your server will look into itself for mx of that domain, and will send emails, I hope..

see you


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[pb2au]

I use an external inbound and outbound Email proxy (spam server) as well.

Everything works great, by setting the (domainname}. IN MX 1 aspmx.l.google.com. record to our Email proxy for domains hosted on the server 1.

However, for domains we host on an ehcp server 2, the 'DNS Only Hosting' on server 1 is causing a problem.

Any Email sent from SquirrelMail or RoundCube on server 1 is attempting to find the user/domain on server 1, rather than going to the Email proxy.

It sounds like a DNS issue, but I have been unable to find out what is causing it.

My DNS looks like:
mail.{domainname}. IN A <Email Proxy IP>
{domainname}. IN MX 10 mail.{domainname}.
{domainname}. IN TXT "v=spf1 a mx"



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[Stone1555]

So I am still having the same issue. I use ehcp for my website hosting and gmail for my email hosting. Everything works fine but php email forms from the server to my email address. Does it matter if I chose DNS hosting or if I setup the domain like normal?





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