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Old 04-07-2003, 10:54 AM   Postid: 85343
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form requests blocked (?)

I have a number of forms on my website that allow users to request information. The forms appear to function correctly, but I am not receiving the email request that the form initiates.
The forms were functional, operating on a test website (nationalbenevolent.net) on futurequest. Last week, we added an IRO to the site, nbacares.org, a url which had been on our inhouse server. When we put in the DNS to change the website, we retained the MX (mail exchange) so email continues to come to the inhouse server.
My understanding of the IRO is that the emails from the forms can remain addressed to me@nationalbenevolent.net, which forwards to me@nbacares.org. That worked fine on the nationalbenevolent.net test site. It is not working now. I've also tried changing the forms to come directly to me@nbacares.org. Neither way works.
One of the forms is a commercial product, applyrefer, which allows the user to tell up to 5 friends about the website. This form does successfully send emails to other addresses outside our inhouse address, but is not sending to my email, either as sender or receiver. (It normally sends a blind copy to me regardless of who sends them).
Seems to me it's got to be in our inhouse mail system...perhaps firewall...but this is a problem over my head. Our WAN administrator is looking at it, but still not finding a solution. Any suggestions? Thanks.
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Old 04-07-2003, 05:26 PM   Postid: 85360
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Hi Bill,

Just to close this up your latest Communication to the Service Desk pretty well finally put the pieces together for this puzzle.

The problem being experienced was that while you maintain your own DNS records for the IR the FutureQuest Name Servers have local entries for your domain, including an MX record.

This caused any email being sent from a web based form to be delivered locally to your account here at FutureQuest instead of the Remote Mail server.

The fix is to order a MX record change which will then allow the local servers to see that your email is being handled externally and a web based form will then deliver the mail to the correct location.
http://www.FutureQuest.net/Order/vas.php?service=7

I hope this helps and thanks for the additional puzzle pieces
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