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| Posted by MikeMike, 08-14-2009, 03:57 PM |
| I have two cpanel servers, centOS 5.3.
One account on server-1 is not receiving emails from any account on server-2.
That one account has no problem getting emails from anywhere else.
Other accounts on server-1 are receiving emails from server-2 accounts without any problems.
The DNS and MX are setup in godaddys total dns on the exact same way for server-1 accounts.
In the mail log on server-1 I can see all incomming emails, but there are no signs of the emails from server-2.
Spamassassin is disabled on server-1.
How do I troubleshoot something like that?
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| Posted by DJMizt73, 08-14-2009, 04:13 PM |
| when u are talking about accounts are you talking about domains?
what does the mail log on server-2 say when it sends an email to the questioned account?
try verifying your MX records using something like dig
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| Posted by cuantica, 08-14-2009, 04:33 PM |
| Any ideas,
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| Posted by MikeMike, 08-14-2009, 04:50 PM |
| Yes, I mean domains.
The server2 log looks fine to me:
and the dig MX:
Server1
Server2
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| Posted by UNIXy, 08-14-2009, 05:07 PM |
| Make sure the domain of the account in question isn't buried somewhere int he configuration files of server2 (grep "domain.tld" -r /etc). If it is, remove it.
Regards
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| Posted by DJMizt73, 08-14-2009, 06:11 PM |
| im not an exim user but did i just read you mail logs correctly?
It looked like it delivered the email for server1.com locally.
i agree check you config maybe you have this domain somewhere aliased in your config files
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| Posted by MikeMike, 08-14-2009, 07:12 PM |
| You nailed it. Thank you!!
I recently moved the domain to server1 from another server. Before I did that I transferred a copy over to server2 in case something went wrong. That copy was still on server 2 and everything was fine after I deleted it.
I would never have expected the mail to behave that way. There must be way to avoid that though. Else I could get a reseller account on a shared host somewhere and create google.com and yahoo.com and aol.com etc.. and I would receive the mails send to those domains from everybody else hosted on that server
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| Posted by UNIXy, 08-14-2009, 09:25 PM |
| Glad it worked. There's a WHM option that can be checked to prevent adding common domains like those. See WHM -> Tweak Settings -> Prevent users from parking/adding common internet domains. It's checked by default so there shouldn't be a problem. Also uncheck WHM -> Tweak Settings -> "Allow Creation of Parked/Addon Domains that resolve to other servers ". Unfortunately, this option is enabled by default and it poses a security risk.
Regards
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