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11-19-2009, 06:36 PM #1Junior Guru Wannabe
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Hosting A Record only - Cannot E-mail client.
I'm having a weird issue - I'm hosting a client's website only.
They have their A record pointed to my server and I have my client's website on a dedicated I.P. address.
I'm using WHM/Cpanel - my client's domain and nameservers are being hosted somewhere else and their A record points to my server's dedicated I.P.
The minute we launched their website and they pointed their A records - I can no longer send an e-mail to this client.
Is my server trying to send the e-mail to this client thinking we're hosting the mx records??
Thanks in advance!
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11-19-2009, 06:41 PM #2Junior Guru Wannabe
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If the name servers hosting the zone of your site is also cPanel based, its MX needs to be adjusted as default MX record points to domain.com and if domain.com is pointing to your server's address, mail will also start coming to your server. You need to remove the site's entry from /etc/localdomains file and enter it in /etc/remotedomains file. Secondly, you need to ask your client to update MX record at the Name servers to mail.domain.com and 'mail' can be created as an 'A' record pointing to the server's IP where mail and site are currently hosted.
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11-19-2009, 06:47 PM #3Retired Moderator
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11-19-2009, 06:53 PM #4Junior Guru
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There should be an MX record option in the email section of their cpanel that you can change. I have this same scenario with a client of mine.
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11-19-2009, 06:59 PM #5Junior Guru Wannabe
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It seems their MX records have 3 different places -
2 of them are Eart***** MX records with the top level MX shown as CBeyond
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11-19-2009, 07:05 PM #6Junior Guru Wannabe
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Ok, so in CPanel - I set the MX records to all three of the mx records they are using.
Let's hope this works, thanks again to everyone!! WHT never lets me down!
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11-19-2009, 07:07 PM #7Junior Guru Wannabe
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This is actually quite simple; say your domain is domaina and the client is domainb.
If both domains are on the same cpanel server and you try and send an email from domaina to domainb regardless of mail for domainb existing on another server cpanel will attempt a local mail delivery.
You need to adjust this record in the /etc/hosts file so that it will attempt delivery to the proper MX record.Larry Dougherty
Hosting.com Server Engineer
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