New issues with Sending email: related to Domain name transfer?

[Karl Larsen]

Linus Ulrick wrote:
> On 7/18/07, Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com> wrote:
>> Linus Ulrick wrote:
>> > Hello Everyone
>> > I have a fully qualified domain name: "afolkey2.net" and I have been
>> > running my own website and mailserver with that domain for quite some
>> > time.  I have been able to successfully receive & Send email from any
>> > of a variety of "afolkey2.net" email addresses.
>> >
>> > But, I just transferred the above mentioned domain to a new registrar
>> > (like I said above, I host my own website and run my own mailserver)
>> > Now, I can no longer send email from any afolkey2.net email addresses.
>> > Squirrelmail, Claws-mail, Thunderbird.  I get errors like this:
>> >
>> > ** error occurred on SMTP session
>> > *** Error occurred while sending the message:
>> > 550 5.7.1 <transfer at ipowerweb.com>... Relaying denied. IP name lookup
>> > failed [192.168.1.1]
>> >
>> > or this:
>> >
>> >       ERROR                            Connection refused
>> > Server replied: 111 Can't open SMTP stream.
>> >
>
>> My experience is that it takes about a week for a new domain name to
>> make it's way across the world. If it has been less than a week just
>> relax and it will happen.
>>
>> Karl
>
> Hello, Karl
> So, you are saying that even though http://www.afolkey2.net is now
> accessible by it's domain name, that different, oh let's say
> "functions" of my domain will take different amounts of time to become
> useable again?  If that is so, that's cool.  I'm just asking because I
> honestly want to know.  I must restate, though, that the thing that
> confuses me is how my registrar, in two different locations, shows two
> different sets of nameservers.  But again, this might all just be a
> waiting game.
>
> Thank you for your attention,
> Steven P. Ulrick
>
> P.S.: I had forgotten that I had used the name of our dear deceased
> cat, Linus (pronounced Lee-nus) in the account settings on this email
> account.  Like my wife just said, his memory lives on :)
>
    I think most of the delay is about legal things. If you have 
afolkey2.net showing up from 2 sources it takes time to see if that is 
the case and is proper. All you need is a collection of letters and 
numbers that no-one else has registered :-)

Karl