Email Problem site not emailing

[BrianKCook]

Hi everyone.

 

I have a email problem with my site. I have a site that is hosted with one company and I host my email on my site.

 

The problem I am having is I cant email myself from my oscommece site. Basicly the email has the same domain as the web site. [email protected] www.domain.com

 

I can recieve email from everyone else so I know my email server is ok.

 

They are also hosting the dns for my site and I can do a nslookup from outside and I can get the ip address of my mail server.

 

Does anyone know how I can find why the email is not going. Or a way with phpmyadmin I can see what it thinks mail.domain.com is.

 

Thanks

Brian

[WiseWombat]

Hi everyone.

 

I have a email problem with my site. I have a site that is hosted with one company and I host my email on my site.

 

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If your websites automated email user is the same as your email server on your local machine which is the default mail server then??

Have you tryed logging into your websites admin and sending email from there.??

May be you should have a different email server account on the local machine as that machines default.

[BrianKCook]

If your websites automated email user is the same as your email server on your local machine which is the default mail server then??

Have you tryed logging into your websites admin and sending email from there.??

May be you should have a different email server account on the local machine as that machines default.

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Forgive me I am new to oscommerce.

 

I have a oscommerce site that I have hosted. When I signed up with them I told them I wanted to wanted to still host my own email so I didnt want them to host it for me. I have an exchange server that use.

 

So what they did was a dns entry and mx record for my servers address so the so if anyone set me a email it would come to my server.

 

The oscommerce site now will email any addresss but the same domain address it has.

 

EX www.domain.com my mail server is mail.domain.com and email is [email protected]

 

Thanks

[WiseWombat]

Forgive me I am new to oscommerce.

 

I have a oscommerce site that I have hosted. When I signed up with them I told them I wanted to wanted to still host my own email so I didnt want them to host it for me. I have an exchange server that use.

 

So what they did was a dns entry and mx record for my servers address so the so if anyone set me a email it would come to my server.

 

The oscommerce site now will email any addresss but the same domain address it has.

 

EX    www.domain.com  my mail server is mail.domain.com and email is [email protected]

 

Thanks

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If you have a second email account on your local machine say [email protected] and have your website set to send extra emails to that account

That way you local machine still has its email set as default and you will then also receave email confirmation from you website on your second email account.

[♥Vger]

This could be an MX record problem. Unless they have transferred the MX record completely to your new domains' mail server then there may still also be another MX record with a higher preference than the MX record to your domain. In this case, as long as the preferred MX record is operating correctly it will always have priority over the secondary record to your domain. In this case you would be trying to relay mail through a domain which is not the same as the website domain.

 

This may work correctly when you are sending e-mails to other domains, but when you try to send to yourself the preferred mx record kicks in.

 

Best thing to do is to make sure that the e-mail for your domain is controlled completely by your domain.

 

Vger