You could email them before you set up their hosting environment, but now you can't...

Modified on Fri, 20 Oct, 2017 at 12:56 AM

During migration, a new customer with existing, self-hosted email accounts stops receiving email from Levaire. This happens after their hosting account has been established with Levaire, but before the domain name is switched over. The problem: the server becomes confused as to where to send email—to a local domain or to a remote domain. To correct:

  1. Use Putty or another SSH utility to SSH into the host account.
  2. Log in
  3. cd .. [Enter]
  4. cd home [Enter]
  5. etc [Enter]
  6. less /etc/localdomains [Enter]
  7. less /etc/remotedomains [Enter]
  8. vi /etc/localdomains (vi is a Linux text editor)
  9. hit 'i' to insert or delete (to add or delete a domain from the localdomains or remotedomains lists)
  10. esc, shift + :
  11. w, q, [Enter] (to save)
  12. /etc/init.d/exm restart [Enter] (to restart the mail server)


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