php mail() function sends to internal mailserver regardless of MX entry for domain.

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I host my site on the virtualmin server but the email is hosted with google. The email works fine from anywhere but my server, if i try to use mail() in php it tries to deliver the message locally. Is there a way to override this behaviour?

Thanks!

Dean

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Howdy,

It’s no problem to host email elsewhere, but if you do that – you’d need to go into Edit Virtual Server -> Enabled Features, and disable the “Mail for Domain” feature. So long as that feature is set, Postfix will attempt to accept delivery for that email locally.

-Eric

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Thank you! I’ll go untick that little box now :slight_smile: