Multiple Domain Email

You need to be a little clearer about your settings... I have no idea what 'Max Bulk Mailer' is, but I'm going to guess that the problem lies in:

in the settings I used: domain2.com

I'm going to hazard that this means you set 'domain2.com' as being the mail server address, in which case that's clearly not right. You should be specifying the address (or hostname) of the mail server not the domain name you're sending for (that likely comes from the 'email address part of the settings). I'd expect the server address to be something more like 'mail.domain1.com', or maybe 'mail.domain2.com', depending on how your DNS is configured.

Obfuscation certainly doesn't help, but I still don't think you're quite getting my point.

Domain Name: joelquigley.com

Host name: joelquigley.com

It's unexpected that 'joelquigley.com' would be correct for your hostname. Tpically this would be something like 'mail.joelquigley.com' or similar (which is how you have rootstockfestival.com setup). That said, it _could_ be correct if you've only got a single IP address. The big issue, though, is what mail server you're trying to tell Max Bulk Mailer to send through. Are you using the joelquigley.com hostname or rootstockfestival.com?

In either case I would expect the majority of your mail to bounce, anyway because you don't have valid reverse DNS for your mail server. Many ISPs, especially the big boys, aill automatically reject your mail on that fact alone, let alone the fact it is actual bulk mail (opt-in or not).

So you have two issues to resolve - first is your reverse DNS (which you have to talk to Sonic.net about), the second is where you've configured Max Bulk Mailer to send its mail through.

But here is my next question: on the ADVANCED TAB, HOSTING tab, do I change from rootstockfestival.com to mail.rootstockfestival.com?

Under hosting you tell the mail servers what domain(s) it should accept mail for.

It's unlikely you're expecting to receive mail addressed to someuser@mail.rootstockfestival.com - you're more likely to use someuser@rootstockfestival.com and therefore 'rootstockfestival.com 'is what you should specify.

Of course, you could do both. It's entirely your call.

Your PTR (reverse IP) is incorrect:

> set type=mx

> joelquigley.com

Server: 8.8.8.8

Address: 8.8.8.8#53

Non-authoritative answer:

joelquigley.com mail exchanger = 10 mail.joelquigley.com.

Authoritative answers can be found from:

> set type=a

> mail.joelquigley.com

Server: 8.8.8.8

Address: 8.8.8.8#53

Non-authoritative answer:

Name: mail.joelquigley.com

Address: 64.142.85.71

> set type=ptr

> 64.142.85.71

Server: 8.8.8.8

Address: 8.8.8.8#53

Non-authoritative answer:

71.85.142.64.in-addr.arpa name = thefives.joelquigley.com

what is the actual hostname of your server? Unless of course your server is called thefives.j.......

One way to combat having different hostnames to reverse lookups is by using SPF records.. i.e. a TXT record with the following on your domain:

example.com. TXT "v=spf1 a:thefives.joelquigley.com -all"

As well as this, set the MX records ALSO to point at:

thefives.joelquigley.com