{"id":581,"date":"2010-03-20T11:43:22","date_gmt":"2010-03-20T15:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/linuxhostingsupport.net\/blog\/?p=581"},"modified":"2013-03-20T08:42:49","modified_gmt":"2013-03-20T12:42:49","slug":"lowest-numbered-mx-record-points-to-localhost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linuxhostingsupport.net\/blog\/lowest-numbered-mx-record-points-to-localhost","title":{"rendered":"lowest numbered MX record points to localhost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quite often you see the<strong> &#8220;lowest numbered MX record points to localhost: rejected RCPT error&#8221;<\/strong> error message in &#8216;exim_mainlog&#8217; on a cPanel server. The error message appears while sending\/receiving emails and it looks something like:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<pre><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">temporarily rejected RCPT &lt;email@domainname.tld&gt;: lowest numbered <\/span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">MX record points to local host<\/span><\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>The problem occurs when the domain name is missing from the \/etc\/localdomains file <\/strong>on the cPanel server<strong>.\u00a0<\/strong> The difference between the \/etc\/localdomains and \/etc\/remotedomains\u00a0 files is that, they decide whether the emails for the domain is hosted locally OR on a remote server respectively.<\/p>\n<p>To fix the issue, edit the file:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<pre><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"># pico \/etc\/localdomains<\/span><\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>and add the domain name in the file. There is no need to restart the &#8216;exim&#8217; service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quite often you see the &#8220;lowest numbered MX record points to localhost: rejected RCPT error&#8221; error message in &#8216;exim_mainlog&#8217; on a cPanel server. The error message appears while sending\/receiving emails and it looks something like:<\/p>\n<p>temporarily rejected RCPT &lt;email@domainname.tld&gt;: lowest numbered<br \/>\nMX record points to local host<\/p>\n<p>The problem occurs when the domain name is missing from the \/etc\/localdomains file on the cPanel server.\u00a0 The difference between the \/etc\/localdomains and \/etc\/remotedomains\u00a0 files is that, they decide whether the emails for the domain is hosted locally OR on a remote server [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[772,771,770,768,766,767,769],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/linuxhostingsupport.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/linuxhostingsupport.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/linuxhostingsupport.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linuxhostingsupport.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linuxhostingsupport.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=581"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/linuxhostingsupport.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":584,"href":"https:\/\/linuxhostingsupport.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581\/revisions\/584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/linuxhostingsupport.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linuxhostingsupport.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linuxhostingsupport.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}