Sorry about that. I new to this and trying my best to figure this out
myself. To begin yes this is a setting within cPanel, which I assumed is a
setting for all servers. This is what they lead me to believe when I posted
it within the cPanel Forums. Their suggest was to email exim.org
Here is link on what each is and does.
http://docs.cpanel.net/twiki/bin/view/AllDocumentation/CpanelDocs/MXEntry
As for the server and server(s), truly sorry. Let me try explaining it again
with cPanel meaning my server and Google for Google and their servers.
I have a cPanel Server. This is setup with the Local Mail Exchanger setting.
I require this setting so that cPanel will handle certain local email
accounts for me. I also have cPanel setup with all MX Records pointing to
Google.
http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?answer=54717. With the
current settings, everything works perfectly except when cPanel tries to
email an account setup with Google that is not setup on cPanel.
Based on the link above on what a Local Mail Exchanger and Remote Mail
Exchanger does I tried both. I get different results but none that get
everything I require. The Local Mail Exchanger is the setting I left it at
as it handles majority of what I require.
With Local Mail Exchanger Setting Turned On
Test 1: If I have an outside source email me I get the email in my Google
Inbox.
Test 2: If I have an outside source email an account that does not exist
with Google. Then Google routes the email back to cPanel and when it is
found cPanel process the email accordingly.
Test 3: When cPanel locally emails a Google Account setup with them I get an
error. R=virtual_aliases: No Such User Here
Test 4: When cPanel locally emails an account that is setup on cPanel it
works.
If I have this option turned on I required test number 3 to work.
With Remote Mail Exchanger Setting Turned On
Test 1: If I have an outside source email me I get the email in my Google
Inbox.
Test 2: If I have an outside source email an account that does not exist
with Google. The routing back to cPanel does not work as with Remote Mail
setting turned on cPanel no longer manages local emails anymore.
Test 3: When cPanel locally emails an account setup with Google it works as
emails are all handled by Google based on the MX Records being setup for
Google.
Test 4: When cPanel locally emails an account setup within cPanel it does
not work as local emails are turned off.
If I have this option turned on I required test number 2 and 4 to work.
That is my problem, which might be just a cPanel issue. Thanks Tim
-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Evans [
mailto:exim-users-20081202@djce.org.uk]
Sent: Monday, July 25, 2011 12:51 PM
To: Tim Pouget
Cc: exim-users@???
Subject: Re: [exim] Non-standard Setup of Mail Routing
On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 08:39:37AM -0400, Tim Pouget wrote:
> I have a question which I am told might be non-standard method in
> setting up the routing of local mail through our cPanel server. As of
> right now our MX Records are currently pointing to Google APPs as they
> are managing our email accounts. We also have the server setup as a
> Local Mail Exchanger which allows Google to route emails back to our
> server if the account does not exist on their end. We do this as we
> have three email accounts that need to remain our end. One is piped to
> a PHP Script, another is used when the server coughs up an error, and the
last is used for our online contact form.
> ...
I'm afraid I found your explanation of your setup rather confusing. In
particular what I'm not clear on is:
1. Are all the references to "the server", "our server" (etc) all referring
to the same server, or is there more than one server involved? (But then I
notice that you also refer to "our servers [plural]" later on).
2. I've not heard of the terminology "Local Mail Exchanger" and "Remote Mail
Exchanger" before, so I'm not sure what you mean by that. Perhaps it's a
cPanel thing?
--
Dave Evans
http://djce.org.uk/
http://djce.org.uk/pgpkey
