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R=virtual_aliases: This address no longer accepts mail

dbrookeJP
Hello, cPanel 54.0.29 PHP 5.6.24 Hello, I have set up a website / account (codeigniter 3 / PHP). The website has a login that is supposed to send email to our remote SMTP server for relaying. It's not working from this account... looks like it's being blocked by cPanel. We do have another account with a forum that uses the same information (host, port) and that works fine (though it took tweaking the exim settings). The full error is:
exim_mainlog:183311:2016-11-22 15:25:03 1c9Hcl-0004aO-HT <= webmaster@example.com U=saadmin P=local S=782 id=5834a99f75f55@example.com T="Sunshine Artist Email Test" for donovanb@example.com exim_mainlog:183313:2016-11-22 15:25:03 1c9Hcl-0004aO-HT ** donovanb@example.com R=virtual_aliases: This address no longer accepts mail."
I have read stuff online including: Why didn't my email get delivered? or where did my email go? But haven't been able to find my exact solution. It appears that the cPanel server thinks there is a local mailbox for donovanb???. The cPanel server *IS* DNS for example.com, but the MX records will point to an external mail server. Another note, the donovanb@example.com address is the contact info for that cPanel account.. wasn't sure if that created some problems?? Thanks for your guidance... have been beating my head against the wall for a couple days now. Donovan

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  • cPanelMichael
    It appears that the cPanel server thinks there is a local mailbox for donovanb???. The cPanel server *IS* DNS for example.com, but the MX records will point to an external mail server.

    Hello, Browse to "WHM >> DNS Functions >> Edit DNS Zone" and verify the email routing settings for this domain name are set to "Remote Mail Exchanger". Thank you.
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  • dbrookeJP
    Hi Michael, I did check that setting, and it was set to local. I changed it to remote, but no difference. I have also changed a few other things now that I don't clearly understand :).. but still basically the same error. I have since told Exim to send mail as the accounts IP address. And have since added an spf record for that IP address. Still the same result, but now the exim_mainlog does not get an error. The output of the debugger for PHP is as follows:
    220 mail.example.com Microsoft ESMTP MAIL Service ready at Wed, 23 Nov 2016 17:58:03 -0600

    hello: 250-mail.example.com Hello [64.131.68. xxx] 250-SIZE 51445760 250-PIPELINING 250-DSN 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES 250-STARTTLS 250-AUTH 250-8BITMIME 250-BINARYMIME 250 CHUNKING

    Failed to send AUTH LOGIN command. Error: Unable to send email using PHP SMTP. Your server might not be configured to send mail using this method.

    User-Agent: CodeIgniter Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2016 23:58:04 +0000 From: " Admin" Return-Path: To: someusr@domain.us Subject: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=53=75=6E=73=68=69=6E=65=20=41=72=74=69=73=74=20=45=6D=61?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=69=6C=20=54=65=73=74?= Reply-To: X-Sender: webmaster@example.com X-Mailer: CodeIgniter X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <58362d0c805bb@example.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Testing the email class.
    Looks to me like the mail server is getting a hit, then can't authenticate?? Thx.
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  • dbrookeJP
    Updating this: "Can't Authenticate" finally led me in the right direction. The external mail server wasn't listening for SMTP at all. Solved! :-/
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  • cPanelMichael
    Updating this: "Can't Authenticate" finally led me in the right direction. The external mail server wasn't listening for SMTP at all. Solved! :-/

    I'm happy to see you were able to resolve the issue. Thank you for updating us with the outcome.
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