e-mail question

[pollos]

I'm trying to set up a mail Redirect to another domain [I own and host it on the same VPS]

I have mail1@mydomain.com setup with a mailbox
I want mail2@mydomain.com setup to redirect to me@my_other_domain.com But it won't

mail2@mydomain.com setup to redirect to mail1@domain.com works, I get mail addressed to mail2@mydomain.com in mail1@mydomain.com mail box

Sending mail to mail2@mydomain.com when setup to redirect to another@my_other_domain.com fails to deliver.

On the mail2 page the setting are:-

Control panel access on.
Mailbox Off
Redirect On
Autoresponders Off
Mail group Off
SpamAssassin Off

Anyone give me a clue as were I'm going wrong

 

[eilko]

check /usr/local/psa/var/log/maillog for errors

 

[pollos]

Thanx for the reply, I have been doing just that and found many entry's like :-

Apr 27 10:16:51 s15235438 qmail-remote-handlers[32445]: to=me@my_other_domain.com
Apr 27 10:16:51 s15235438 qmail: 1209284211.112707 delivery 720: failure: Sorry._Although_I'm_listed_as_a_best-preference_MX_or_A_for_that_host,/it_isn't_in_my_control/
locals_file,_so_I_don't_treat_it_as_local._(#5.4.6)/

And also failures to=anonymous@s15235438.my_hosts_server.info and to=root@s15235438.my_hosts_server.info

The only MX record is for mail.mydomain.com none for my_other_domain.com


I should add that mydomain.com is the main domain for the website my_other_domain.com is an alias also I use my host's mail facility/servers for mail for my_other_domain.com

Another possibly related problem is that php mail() will work sending mail to any address except anyone@my_other_domain.com Could my hosts mail servers be rejecting it??

Thanks for your time.

 

[eilko]

Do you run the DNS for my_other_domain.com on your Plesk box?

 

[pollos]

If I understand you correctly, I use my host's[1&1] name servers although I may have it all completely wrong.

The plesk dns page shows:-

<domain>. NS ns.<domain>.
<domain>. A <ip>
<ip> / 24 PTR <domain>.
ftp.<domain>. CNAME <domain>.
mail.<domain>. A xx.xxx.xxx.xx
mail.<domain>. MX (10) mail.mydomain.com
ns.<domain>. A <ip>
webmail.<domain>. A <ip>

Does this help, have I understood you??

 

[eilko]

this is the dns page at the server section. Go to the domain and disable the dns for the my_other_domain.com. And this able mail also.

 

[faris]

I would normally say that seeing this:

"Sorry._Although_I'm_listed_as_a_best-preference_MX_or_A_for_that_host,/it_isn't_in_my_control/
locals_file,_so_I_don't_treat_it_as_local._(#5.4.6 )/"

In your VPSes log file means the mx records for that domain point to your VPSr, but the actual domain has no email set up for it.

Since you host the email for it elsewhere, this is not suprising.

What is therefore happening is that Plesk is redirecting correctly but it thinks the domain is local, tries to deliver locally, then fails.

They key is that the DNS does not appear to be correct. The MX records should point to the remote host, not the plesk box.

If you are not running DNS for that domain on the Plesk box then you should have DNS turned off for it, and only have NS pointers (to the 1and1 DNS servers).

I don't use domain Aliases so I can't remember if you can manage DNS for an Alias separately for an Alias or not.

At least I think this is what's happening......

 

[pollos]

this is the dns page at the server section. Go to the domain and disable the dns for the my_other_domain.com. And this able mail also.

I don't use domain Aliases so I can't remember if you can manage DNS for an Alias separately for an Alias or not.

There is no 'my_other_domain.com' listed in the plesk domain page, only entries for the physically hosted sites so I cannot manage dns for the alias.

This has all happened since they 'upgraded the VPS servers' although they deny the upgrade would cause any problems. I think it time to get back to 1&1's support, ........ their answer will be "We don't support VPS's" again.

Anyone know of a affordable managed friendly host.

And thanks for your time and help.