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

[Karl Larsen]

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.
>
> I have seen various references to the above errors on the Internet.
> But I brought this issue here because it sure seems strange that I
> could receive & Send email from afolkey2.net email addreses before I
> switched registrars, but as soon as the transfer was completed (and
> 24+ hours later as well)  I no longer can Send email from afolkey2.net
> addresses.
>
> My  name servers are as follows:
> ns1.dnsexit.com & ns2.dnsexit.com
>
> If I check to see what my nameservers are using the following four
> methods, they are listed exactly as quoted above:
> 1. "jwhois afolkey2.net"
> 2. https://manage.opensrs.net/
> 3. https://dom07.ipowerweb.com:8087/panel/index (Using "Domain Admin |
> Domain Name Manager" on my registrar's provided cpanel.)
> 4. http://www.internic.net
>
> BUT, if I check the "Domain Admin | Zone File Manager" on my
> registrar's cpanel, my nameservers are listed thusly:
> ns1.ipowerweb.net
> ns2.ipowerweb.net
> ns1.ipowerdns.com
> ns2.ipowerdns.com
>
> I just sent an email to my new registrar about this definite
> discrepancy.  But my question(s) for you guru's out there are as
> follows:
> 1. Any ideas if it is feasibly that my email sending ability would be
> eliminated just by changing registrar's?
> 2. If not, then why did my email setup "Just Work" right until the
> transfer went through?
> 3. Could the obvious discrepancy in nameserver settings be the cause 
> of this?
> 4. And, the obvious, if the discrepancy is just a coincidence, why did
> this happen now, and not before the transfer?
>
> For an exact copy of my Live Chat with my registrar, as well as what I
> sent to their domain transfer department, look here:
> http://www.afolkey2.net/~steve/afolkey2.net.txt
>
> Anyway, thank you in advance for any help you can give me,
> Steven P. Ulrick
>
> P.S.: This is my first posting to a mailing list while using gmail.  I
> clicked "Plain Text", but I want to apologize in advance for any
> potential evils in the formatting of this message...
>
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