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Name: sessiontimedout
Date: June 28, 2000 at 00:08:36 Pacific
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Hi All,
Here is the problem. I have a domain having its DNS at some server with MX and NS records. The Domain and the mailing system is working perfectly. Due to some reasons i am not having the web server at this location. The web server is on some other server held by some service provider. The server on which the web server is present is acting as primary DNS for some 400 other domains. We have pointed the www pointer to the web address of that server.
The problem is that whenever a person tries to mail us through our web site(which is on that different server), the mail never reaches us- it gets clogged in that server itself. I have done the DNS lookup from the server holding the web site and i get the perfect lookup for my domain.
What can be the reason of this.



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Name: Murat
Date: July 2, 2000 at 11:46:03 Pacific
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I am a little confused about the scenario here. You have a domain , say, "a.com". You run a mail server at "a.com". You get your mail from "a.com"'s mail server and send it through "a.com". You do not have a web server running at "a.com", people trying to access "a.com" is automatically pointed to "b.com" where your web site is hosted at. So if you set up your mail link as mailto:user@b.com, mail will stay in user's queue on b.com. If you have not defined forwarding rules on b.com, you will not receive this e-mail in user@a.com's inbox. If you use mailto:user@a.com, you should be able to receive this mail from your web user.

Is this what you think should happen and does not happen, or am I missing something?


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