Bug in Removing MX Record?

Virtualmin
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SYSTEM INFORMATION
OS type and version Debian 11
Webmin version 2.0.11
Virtualmin version 7.5
Related packages BIND

Hi community,

I have just faces an issue this weekend.
Some time ago, I created accidentally a Server with Mail enabled. When I found it out, I disabled it in the VM settings of the server.
On the weekend I did a re-ckech of the system and there was an issue on this domain, that it has a MX record, but no mail. Aa/AAAA record.
So I deleted this record manually out of the DNS Records and everything worked out fine with the Re-Check.
Today I digged around a bit, and created a new domain with Mail enabled. I switched it off after it was created. The information says “Removing MX records from DNS domain”, but the MX record was still there after it.
I don’t know if this is maybe a bug in Virtualmin or it should be like this.

Thanks a lot upfront.

Dean

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Hi there,

I don’t want to be pushy at all, but maybe @staff knows about it?

Thanks a lot

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I tested on a Rocky System, works fine. Bug maybe OS specific.

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Interesting @stefan1959 ,

thanks a lot for your answer :slightly_smiling_face:
By the way, on which Rocky System Number you’re running?
I’ll probably set-up a new server soon, based on Rocky as well.

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rocky 8, but I will try 9. Just doing some testing.

Steve

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I tested enabling and disabling email for a domain, and the MX record was added and removed successfully.

What hostname did the MX record point to?

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Hi there,

thanks a lot for your answer.
The MX points to mail.domain.com with the priority of 5.
But somehow just the mail. A/AAAA record get’s removed.
When I disable mail and enable it again, Virtualmin will not set the A/AAAA record for mail…

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Can you post the output of the command virtualmin get-dns --domain yourdomain.com before attempting to disable the email feature?

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Hi @Jamie,

Sorry for the delay in getting back to you. I’ve been under the weather lately.

But I think I’ve finally found the issue. My friend’s domains are being administered by Cloudflare, which means he’s also using their nameservers (I think he’s even forced to it). But if a domain is managed by Virtualmin, everything works just as it should.

Thanks for your help and sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused.

Best,
Dean

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Ok, glad you got that figured out!

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