Using an offsite mail server (locally sent mail fails)

[DanceInstructor]

I'm using google for domains with one of my domains (has worked pretty well so far). I just moved this domain to a server that I admin directly. I edited the dns zone so that it looked the same as the other server (for the mx entries) before initiating the transfer. The site is resolving to the new server fine. I can recieve mail from other servers to the google mail and send mail from home (pops to pop.gmail.com) fine, but when sending mail from the local server (php mail() etc) the mail just gets stuck in the que. So I suspect that somehow exim or whatever is trying to use the local server instead of sending the mail to google. The results of tail -f /var/log/exim_mainlog:

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006-10-21 18:26:06 1GbPI6-0003bQ-4O <= [email protected]********.com U=nobody P=local S=932
2006-10-21 18:26:06 1GbPI6-0003bQ-4O ** ***@*****.com R=virtual_aliases: No Such User Here
2006-10-21 18:26:06 1GbPI6-0003bT-J7 <= <> R=1GbPI6-0003bQ-4O U=mailnull P=local S=1842

Thanks in advance

 

[carluk]

remove the domain from /etc/localdomains and add it to /etc/remotedomains

 

[DanceInstructor]

That seems to have done it! Thanks bunches

 

[monkeymojo]

Does that take effect immediately?

I had this same issue, and moved the domain from the one file to the other. How long does this take to work? Is it immediate? Do I need to restart BIND, and /or exim? Thank you.

 

[carluk]

It should work straight away without any restart of any of the daemons needed.

 

[monkeymojo]

You're right - it was working. I just didn't have an email address to test with, so I wasn't sure the tests were going through. When my client got back in the office, they said all the form mails came through. Thanks!