Email issue, hosted domain email.

Virtualmin
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Hi, i’m having some difficulties with sending mail within virtualmin running on debian squeeze.

I have a server running several domains and subdomains, around 20 accounts in total. The hosting does not include any email accounts as I have an email server hosted somewhere else.

When I use php to send an email to any external domain e.g. a gmail account it works fine, mail gets delivered however I recently added a new domain and since adding it if I send mail to a domain that I host it gets stuck in the system, originally it was stuck in the Postfix queue however now it just disappears and is not delivered. I was getting error 550 in the queue.

I have tried everything from using and external SMTP server and I have MX records pointing to the mail server however I still have these issues, any help would be greatly appreciated as I’m a bit stuck with it.

I have tried the steps in the mail troubleshooting and everything I can find regarding external mail server and virtualmin on google.

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Howdy,

If your email accounts are being hosted externally – then you’ll want to disable the “Mail for Domain” feature on your Virtual Servers.

When “Mail for Domain” is enabled, Postfix thinks it’s the final destination for that domain.

-Eric

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Thanks for your reply but I have already disabled it and it still gets stuck in the queue.

Any other ideas?

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Fixed the issue, it turns out the mail server was actually blocking access, white listed the server IP with the mail server and all working.

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