MS Based IT infrastructure for a very small business

[ThomasSoerensen]

I just sent a test message myself and it is to be found nowhere - also no bounce.

[ThomasSoerensen]

Email sent to @cavaris.com must go somewhere first.

Am I right in thinking speednames is your hosting provider? If so, I would expect you need to configure the email on there. I reckon email sent to ThomasSoerensen@cavaris.com is being cheerfully stored on that email system, and anything else bounces as unknown (i.e. no alias set up for it).

speednames is my domain provider.

but they do not host my email.

Google apps that has the cavaris domain told me to perform a CNAME update to a line in the Wweb settings at speednames. So I made an entry that reads like this : googleffffffffd.cavaris.com CNAME google.com.

This has worked for about 1.5 years with out problems.

Then today it stops.

[VectraMan]

I just sent a test message myself and it is to be found nowhere - also no bounce.

BTW when I was panicking about Google not working yesterday, I was sending myself loads of test messages and not getting them. I've now discovered that GoogleMail is "clever" in that it recongises messages you've sent (because the one coming in matches the one in the sent box) and doesn't add it to your inbox. So you can't send yourself a message via Google, even if it's via a different domain.

It's mentioned in the FAQ somewhere, under sending to a mailing list.

[ThomasSoerensen]

the other day I had a website created and in the speednames settings I created an entry of www.cavaris.com webalias "address of website at website hoster"

this line was above the CNAME line

could that be it.


I have now removed the webalias entry.

Lets test some more.

[ThomasSoerensen]

if anyone is still interested.

Google claimed that the MX records at my domain registrar (speednames) had gone back to that registrars defaults.

I tried on vain to use their guide to update the MX records - but failed.

I logged a support ticket with speednames Saturday morning.

Today, monday around lunch time my cavaris mail started working again.

So no need right now the a bit change in the infrastructure.

my google apps hosted cavaris email works fine now.