Simple email forwarding w/ GoDaddy doesn"t work; but WHY?

I have a domain name parked and locked at GoDaddy and I have the domain
forwarded to another .com domain controlled by somebody else.

I would have thought that simple domain forwarding would have caused
*@some-domain.biz to be forwarded to *@some-domain.com, too, but
evidently not. Here is an example of the bounce:


Permanent Failure:
553_sorry,_relaying_denied_from_your_location_[204.127.202.5 5]_(#5.7.1)
Delivery last attempted at Sun, 7 Aug 2005 05:44:33 -0000

GoDaddy support is COMPLETELY USELESS and have not even been able to
understand the problem, let alone posit a solution. Is there anybody
here that can help?

Re: Simple email forwarding w/ GoDaddy doesn"t work; but WHY?

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woodcock@SonLightSoftware.com writes:

> I have a domain name parked and locked at GoDaddy and I have the domain
> forwarded to another .com domain controlled by somebody else.
>
> I would have thought that simple domain forwarding would have caused
> *@some-domain.biz to be forwarded to *@some-domain.com, too, but

$ whois some-domain.biz
[Querying whois.neulevel.biz]
[whois.neulevel.biz]
Not found: some-domain.biz

$ whois some-domain.com
[Querying whois.internic.net]
[Redirected to whois.enom.com]
[Querying whois.enom.com]
[whois.enom.com]

Registration Service Provided By: EBY Media
Contact: webmaster@lesbiany.com
Visit:

Domain name: some-domain.com

Administrative Contact:
EBY Media
Michael Brown (webmaster@lesbiany.com)
+1.501294800920
Fax: +1.501294800920
P.O. BOX 11271
Little Rock, AR 72203
US


Looks like your "some-domain.biz" domain isn't even registered.

> evidently not. Here is an example of the bounce:
>
>
> Permanent Failure:
> 553_sorry,_relaying_denied_from_your_location_[204.127.202.5 5]_(#5.7.1)
> Delivery last attempted at Sun, 7 Aug 2005 05:44:33 -0000
>
> GoDaddy support is COMPLETELY USELESS and have not even been able to
> understand the problem, let alone posit a solution. Is there anybody
> here that can help?

No, unfortunately all our psychics are out to lunch right now, and nobody
knows how to operate the magical mind ray-beam machine in order to extract
the relevant details out of your head.

If, instead of providing real data, you choose to replace the actual domains
(and maybe IP addresses) with completely made-up ones, for some completely
pointless reason, the only thing you can expect to receive in response is a
made-up answer, instead of a real one.


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Re: Simple email forwarding w/ GoDaddy doesn"t work; but WHY?

On 9 Aug 2005 12:48:51 -0700, woodcock@SonLightSoftware.com wrote:

>I have a domain name parked and locked at GoDaddy and I have the domain
>forwarded to another .com domain controlled by somebody else.
>
>I would have thought that simple domain forwarding would have caused
>*@some-domain.biz to be forwarded to *@some-domain.com, too, but
>evidently not.

I think you're simply wrong about that. You have to set up the email
forwarding before any email forwarding takes place. Domain forwarding
is just different.

> Here is an example of the bounce:
>
>
>Permanent Failure:
>553_sorry,_relaying_denied_from_your_location_[204.127.202. 55]_(#5.7.1)
>Delivery last attempted at Sun, 7 Aug 2005 05:44:33 -0000

It could be that the MX records for some-domain.biz are set up, but
Godaddy hasn't configured those MX mailservers for the domain. Maybe
that configuration doesn't happen until you actually create an email
address in the domain. It could be that Godaddy just doesn't want any
email from 204.127.202.55 (sccrmhc11.comcast.net), but I would expect
to see a different error message in that case.

Steve Baker