I have configured my yahoo domain to use Leaseweb shared Linux hosting by changing my A records to my hosting IP. When I check my yahoo domain control panel I see,
Type: >>>>>>>>>>>>> Source: >>>>>>>>>>>>> Destination:
CNAME Record>>>>>>>>>>>>>mail.mydomain.com>>>>>>>>>>>Yahoo! Hostname
Problem
All my email addresses that I created from Leaseweb plesk control panel can not receive any emails (test emails bounce back with a failure notice)
I think I have to change the above CNAME record in yahoo domain control panel to leaseweb mail servers.
mail.domain.com is used as the MX record and is where users point their mail clients for POP/IMAP access. I'm obviously going to be relocating the record to a new IP.
My questions are:
In the interim period, can I have exim 'redirect' POP/IMAP connections to the new IP (for users), and can I have exim relay/forward (not sure on the term in this case) mail received from old DNS caches to the new mailserver IP?
For mail server admins, do you enforce PTR (reverse dns checks) on incoming mail? All hosts know to have rDNS set on their mail IPs to ensure free-flowing outbound mail but do you also enforce the check on inbound.
And does anyone know of somewhere that shows stats on the state of net and what perecentage use PTR checks etc?
What I wanna do is synchronize both of them using rsync. Once they've got synchronized, the UK will be the primary server and US will be secondary, in case the UK goes down.
my questions are
1. Is it possible that when the UK goes down, the A records for domain.com automatically switches to the US server so it can take over while UK is down.
ie. UK ip 112.113.114.1 US ip 222.111.444.5
domain.com A records = UK ip when up... but when UK is down, A records automatically changes to US ip.
2. And when the UK server goes up again, whatever changes made to US server will be pushed to UK. May it be files, accounts or e-mails.
I.E.
UK and US are synchronized every 30mins. UK and US both have e-mails 1-10.
Just before the sync time, UK server received an e-mail 11-15 then goes down. So the US Server will take over but do not have 11-15 mails, since it was received before sync time. During the UK downtime, US server received e-mails 16-20.
When the UK server goes up, will it be possible to sync both servers that both of them will have the e-mails 1-20?
I hope you get my point...
If these are not feasible, what can you advice as an alternative solution. All I want is to avoid downtimes, especially with mails as the business relies on this.
I am moving a couple clients over to my server tonight, but I wanted to make sure I took steps that they don't miss any e-mail that might be sent. It is my understanding that say the switch happens tonight at midnight. Any e-mails they did not download from the old server will be stuck on there correct? Because they would come in the next morning and hit outlook and download just from the new server?
Is there a set protocol for doing this move with minimal client hic-ups?
i'm running a forum and a few other things on a futurehosting VPS plan which is running centos.
we changed to futurehosting because our shared hosting was definately not coping with it, so we had to make a quick changeover... unfortunately i dont have too much experience with setting up mailservers in linux(which seems to be a massive complicated mess involving a million different services).
i'm wondering if anyone knows any guides to setting up a mail server + have a managable web interface to add user accounts/setup forwarding rules and such that works well with centos?
or better yet, is futurehosting capable of doing it for me
I have a virtual dedicated server with GoDaddy. I don't know to much about managing a server, but have been doing ok for the last 5 months or so (so please make any explainations VERY simple)
I run several pretty heavy traffic sites, and the scripts on the sites send out automatic notifications to the user base that has requested such notifications (new responses, new listings etc..) and in the past few days NONE of those emails are making it through.
The mail just DISAPPEARS! I'm not getting any bounced email, the mail queue manager has only the same spam as not being allowed through, and I have restarted exim, GoDaddy also says that mail IS being sent from the server, they just can't explain why it isn't being delivered, and I'm not going over the max amount I can send daily.
I have NO clue what is going on and ANY help is REALLY appreciated!
Also, the forwarders are still working (mail sent to user@domain.com still gets successfully forwarded to the correct email address)
I don't know much about technical details of mail servers. But i want to discuss a serious problem i am facing now. I have a reseller account with jodohost. I am not a reseller but i need this to host 20 of my own and client sites. During last few days no. of emails coming to us dropped almost 60% and suddenly i found that i was not getting emails from few of my clients. Then today i got a call from two of them and they said that all emails they were sending to me, were bouncing back.I asked them for a copy of bounced emails which they sent to my gmail account and i forwarded it to my jodohost support. This the response i got-
All of our mail servers have reverse DNS and mails are delivered. anyone not having rDNS is not able to mail much of the internet already, they really must talk to their system administrators and get reverse DNS setup.
Now they say that my clients do not have rdns at their mail servers and emails from them can not be delivered to my account.
Is rdns compulsory to send emails from a mail server these days?
But in that case i may not get emails from so many inquires?
I have a couple cpanel servers and am interested in setting up new server (without cpanel) that I would use as a mail server for all the other cpanel servers. This server would also interface with my mailfoundry anti-spam solution. Can someone point me to any tutorials/how-tos for setting up a standalone mail server that still works with email account creation, etc, aspects of cpanel?
I'm trying to see if it's possible to have 2 email addresses on the same domain (e.g. email1@domain.com and email2@domain.com) but are handled by 2 different email servers (e.g. mail.domain1.com and mail.domain2.com)?
To put it into context, I have a domain hosted on my dedicated server and a couple of email accounts set up on it. I also have another mail account set up on a different server but with the same domain. I was wondering if maybe something could be done with the DNS to allow the 'external' mail account to be handled by the other server?
The thing is that the emails that are going to gmail servers are getting stucked on my mail queue, here is the log of one mail in exim:
Message 1KyWoL-0004jv-FS is no longer frozen LOG: MAIN cwd=/usr/local/cpanel/whostmgr/docroot 4 args: /usr/sbin/exim -v -M 1KyWoL-0004jv-FS delivering 1KyWoL-0004jv-FS Connecting to gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com [74.125.45.27]:25 ... connected SMTP<< 220 mx.google.com ESMTP 34si8790560yxm.0 SMTP>> EHLO srv211.xxx.cl SMTP<< 250-mx.google.com at your service, [64.76.xxx.xxx] 250-SIZE 35651584 250-8BITMIME 250 ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES SMTP>> MAIL FROM:<consultas@xxxx.cl> SIZE=1957264 SMTP<< 250 2.1.0 OK 34si8790560yxm.0 SMTP>> RCPT TO:<xxxxx@gmail.com> SMTP<< 250 2.1.5 OK 34si8790560yxm.0 SMTP>> DATA SMTP<< 354 Go ahead 34si8790560yxm.0 SMTP>> writing message and terminating "." LOG: MAIN == xxxx@gmail.com R=lookuphost T=remote_smtp defer (-1): smtp transport process returned non-zero status 0x000e: terminated by signal 14 LOG: MAIN Frozen
It happens on all my servers (i have 4) and i don't know if the problem is mine, gmail's or even my datacenter
I have all my services running, (though i restarted exim anyway)
I just switch to a new server and I found out that hotmails is marking all my mail as spam, it goes directly to the junk mail folder, however gmail and yahoo is ok.
I have a broken reverse dns thought that my be but I'm not sure, anyone have any experience regarding this?
I recently ordered a HP ProLiant DL180 with LeaseWeb. During pre-sales communication on April 3rd I was told that the KVM card that comes with DL180 is buggy and I won't be able to use it until HP fixes it. Considering the "strategic partnership" between LeaseWeb and HP, I thought they'd fix the problem quickly, so I went ahead and ordered the server anyway. Now it's been 3 weeks and still no word on the fix. Anyone else with a DL180 in the same situation?
I want to share my history/review with leaseweb.com..
I needed a quick setup server for a Windows Media Services service, I have several servers at softlayer.com but I decided to test one of the most famous European providers leaseweb.com .
So I talked with their sales and told that I need a 24 hour setup server, I wanted only that. So the sales quickly make pay for 6 months of an express windows server. No problem until now.
24 hours later I contacted their sales, and they said that my server would be provider today or maybe tomorrow (48 hours later!)
1 day later I contacted leaseweb and they said that they didn't have any stock of hardware to make the server.
2 days after the order on this day morning I contacted their sales and setup team again and they said to me that my server would be delivered before the end of the day.
At the end of that day I contacted their sales and setup team AGAIN and they said to me that they don't have stock of windows 2008 or windows 2003 standard (? WTF ?), I talked with them for more than half an hour.
They wanted to give me for the delay a cheaper server with a windows server 2003 WEB. WHAT? A windows that don't even support windows media services and a cheaper server for their mistake?
I asked if I waited one more time if they would be able to setup any server with windows 2008 or windows 2003 standard, the answer was "we don't know"..
So let’s resume, leaseweb only works from 9am to 5.30pm European time, they can spend 4 days without hardware or windows stock ( how is that possible ) and they want to apologize with a cheaper server with a cheaper windows...
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So to any of you that have servers at leasewed.com , what will happen to you when some part of your server stop working?? You will have to wait more than 4 days for hardware stock, some days because of your windows licenses and some more weeks for support??
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I would recommend anyone to pay more for a good company, not this companies that only can support your server 5 days a week for some hours a day.
I have asked for a refund at leaseweb.com let’s see if that refund comes or not, maybe in 6 weeks?
A thread titled "Leaseweb.com is very very bad!" has been closed recently "by request". Don't know what it means. Kind of censorship?
Whatever, I'm going to tell you how they are good at Leaseweb:
They have no dectection of duplicated IPs, so they let you configure an IP belonging to somebody else on your interfaces.
If, evently, the problem is detected (somebody else complaining), instead of pulling the plug, they send you a mail, kindly asking you to remove the offending IP.
So they are very good at Leaseweb. They forgive your errors and let you experiment with the network.
And what about "somebody else" having his web site down during several days waiting for you to correct your mistakes?
Is there anyone here using leaseweb? Was hoping I can get a user who is using their server to give me their IP to check out the speed. I prefer to get real user's ip rather than IPs provider by the provider to ensure I get the real picture.
I have my dedicated solutions in leaseweb from couple of years and i am intrested in moving now to swiftway because of prices and the fact that's .nl too.
Anyone can say anything about current swiftway network? is it stable? any downtimes? what about latency? I will see big diffrence between lw and swiftway?
