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Enable DKIM and have Exim SMTP banner use the accounts dedicated IP in DirectAdmin for PHP mail

Enable DKIM and change the PHP mail SMTP Sender banner

To Change the "Sender" info we have to do the following:

cd /usr/local/directadmin/data/templates/custom/
cp /usr/local/directadmin/data/templates/virtual_host2.conf /usr/local/directadmin/data/templates/custom/
cp /usr/local/directadmin/data/templates/virtual_host2_secure.conf /usr/local/directadmin/data/templates/custom/
sed -i 's/`USER`@`DOMAIN`/no-reply@`DOMAIN`/g' ./virtual_host2*.conf
echo "action=rewrite&value=httpd" >> /usr/local/directadmin/data/task.queue
/usr/local/directadmin/dataskq d
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DirectAdmin how to set an external email server for Domain Pointers

If you ever created domain pointers in DirectAdmin, you may have wondered how to set the domain pointer NOT to process email locally.

For instance say you have PRIMARYDOMAIN.com as the main domain under your DirectAdmin account--and it is set NOT to process emails locally, but rather have an external email server handle that; Under MX Records you un-checked "Use this server to handle my emails. If not, change the MX record and uncheck this option". So now you decided to create a "domain pointer" under that same account for another domain SECONDARYDOMAIN.com ... You set the proper MX records for this domain pointer under DNS settings, pointing to the external mail server, and think you're all good to go...

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