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Date:  Sun, 25 Jun 2006 11:16:17 +0200
From:  "Taco Scargo" <taco (at mark) scargo.nl>
Subject:  [coba-e:05861] Re: Mail Routing Issue
To:  <coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org>
Message-Id:  <01b801c69838$0747bbd0$14001fac@DELLP4TACO>
References:  <C0C3FC0A.8750%webmaster (at mark) muntada.com>
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Do the old and new host have the same hostname ?
Has reverse dns been set up correctly ?

I have seen multiple instances where this causes mail to bounce.

Taco
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Abdul-Rashid Abdullah" <webmaster (at mark) muntada.com>
To: <coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org>
Sent: Sunday, June 25, 2006 2:38 AM
Subject: [coba-e:05860] Re: Mail Routing Issue


> Thanks Ken.  Your first thought was my first thought.  I have done a grep
> icpm.us * in the /etc/mail folder and I have repeated it for a domain that
> is working and compared the results.  What I got was returns from the
> local-host-names, virtusertable, and virtusertable.db.  So I checked that
> off my list.
>
> Next I thought, perhaps it is a DNS thing as you too suggested.  That
> checked out.
>
> I previously tried sending via external but that didn't work.  Now it is
> working which is throwing me off, but still the old server cannot send.
> There must be something stale in the old server that is making it think 
> that
> the domain is still on it.
>
> -Rashid
>
>
> On 6/25/06 2:12 AM, "Ken Marcus - Precision Web Hosting, Inc."
> <kenmarcus (at mark) precisionweb.net> wrote:
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>> You might make sure neither of the servers thinks it should respond for 
>> the
>> IP of the other. Maybe when you migrated the sites, the IP of one site 
>> was
>> still set at the old servers IP. So, look down the site list and check 
>> the
>> IPs.
>>
>> And that the site you are trying to send email to ,  does not exist on 
>> the
>> old server at least as far as mail server aliases.
>>
>> Or your DNS is not updated yet.
>> http://dnsreport.com/tools/dnsreport.ch?domain=icpm.us
>>
>>
>> ----
>> Ken Marcus
>> Precision Web Hosting, Inc.
>> http://www.precisionweb.net
>>
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