I need some help with a funny mail problem - mail for my primary domain is not delivering at all - even if it is being sent from another user on the primary domain (in other words, from one account on the server to another). The mail doesn't bounce, but it doesn't deliver either. It just goes away!!

Here are my log entries:

Dec 4 04:15:06 www imapd[9817]: imap service init from 127.0.0.1

Dec 4 04:15:06 www imapd[9817]: Login failure user=Active_Monitor_69 host=localhost [127.0.0.1]

Dec 4 04:15:09 www imapd[9817]: Command stream end of file, while reading line user=Active_Monitor_69 host=localhost [127.0.0.1]

Dec 4 04:15:10 www in.qpopper[9838]: EOF from Active_Monitor_69 at 127.0.0.1 (localhost): [0] 2 (No such file or directory); 0 (Success)

Dec 4 04:15:10 www in.qpopper[9838]: Active_Monitor_69 at localhost (127.0.0.1): -ERR POP EOF or I/O Error: 2 (No such file or directory); 0 (Success)

Dec 4 04:15:11 www sendmail[9839]: NOQUEUE: Null connection from localhost [127.0.0.1]

I tried doing a reboot and it didn't help. For some reason, when I try to telnet in I get the kernel & OS but no login prompt, so I can't get in to snoop around?

The only thing I can think of is that I changed the DNS for my pri domain to my registrars DNS servers instead of the DNS server running on my RaQ - but I don't think it has propogated yet, and I haven't removed the DNS entries from my RaQ yet.

Any advice?

Those log entires are just the Active Moniter checking on the services. try pinging your domain and see if the you get the IP of your server returned.

Yes, the sites DNS is resolving - web works fine and I can login to my mailbox. Further testing shows that mail to www.mydomain.com works just fine, but mail to domain.com doesn't. When I switched to my regisrtars DNS servers they automatically made a C record for www.domain.com (which I know RaQ's hate) but I prompty deleted it and made the appropriate A record.

One confession - I forget to create the MX record right away - maybe it hasn't propogated yet. However, when going from one account on the server to another also on the server, the MX record shouldn't make a difference, should it?

Check your mail queue (/home/spool/mqueue/) when you finally get back into the server. I don't think mail just ever dissappears, I'll bet it's in your queue.

Or maybe I won't bet, just a guess :)