Forward mail to Exchange server issue

[plake]

I found the instructions below in a thread, and had already followed these steps to redirect mail from the domain in question.

I have tested sending mail from my administrative acct, and it is forwarded to the "default" e-mail address and is not passed on to the Exchange server...

Just a few other notes...

after adding the sub domain, I removed it from localdomains and put it over in remotedomains

ran /scripts/mailperm
then /scripts/restartsrv bind

Does anyone have a resolution for this?


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Originally posted by ciphervendor
Let me kind of break it down into steps for you:


1. Create a new A entry within your clients zone file:

exchange 114400 IN A IP.Address

IP.Address is that of the exchange server.


2. You will want to change the MX line in the same file....

Should look like this:

domain.com. 14400 IN MX 0 domain.com.

Change to:

domain.com. 14400 IN MX 0 exchange.domain.com.

* Notice the '.' after the domain names; those are intentional and required.


3. Save, close & reload bind.


4. You will need to remove your clients domain from /etc/localdomains so that any mail sent from the server your client is hosted on is not kept locally--rather forwarded to the exchange server.

Once DNS propagation is complete, your client will have mail hitting their exchange server.

[plake]

anyone?

[plake]

thanks to some help over in the unoffical #cpanel channel on EFNET...

I found that i did not have the domains removed from my /etc/localdomains file and also did not have them placed in the /etc/secondarymx file...

as is well

big thanks to papillion for his help...

[goodmove]

Originally posted by plake
thanks to some help over in the unoffical #cpanel channel on EFNET...

I found that i did not have the domains removed from my /etc/localdomains file and also did not have them placed in the /etc/secondarymx file...

as is well

Did you add a secondary MX record in the zone file?

[plake]

i sure did, my above post shows that :P

thanks though

[goodmove]

I did read your post but I did not see a reference to a second MX record. There was 1 record as:

domain.com. 14400 IN MX 0 exchange.domain.com.

I was wondering if you just put exchange.domain.com in /etc/secondarymx as I am trying to create a similar setup for a client.

[plake]

I put the domain.com in the secondary MX

it then forwarded all the mail for that domain so my box would stop processing it and pass it to the exchange server.

[goodmove]

Thanks.