https://www.machform.com/forums/ MachForm Community Forums Topic: Error with domain-specific email addresses en Tue, 07 Apr 2026 08:38:06 +0000 https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/error-with-domain-specific-email-addresses#post-14248 Wed, 04 Apr 2012 20:17:58 +0000 wsideborah 14248@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>Ah yes that sounds like that could be the issue as for these accounts we set the A record to point their domain name in order to leave the mail servers alone. I'll give that a try and see if that works. Thank you! </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/error-with-domain-specific-email-addresses#post-14239 Tue, 03 Apr 2012 23:16:23 +0000 yuniar 14239@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>Oops...sorry I didn't notice your last reply.<br /> I think I know the problem.</p> <p>I guess the mail server is using a different server than the website server. Am I correct?<br /> If so, you will need to contact your server admin and ask him to turn off "Local Mail Delivery" on your website server.</p> <p>So that the email designated for your domain is not being sent to the web server, instead it should be sent to your actual mail server. </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/error-with-domain-specific-email-addresses#post-14221 Mon, 02 Apr 2012 22:53:55 +0000 wsideborah 14221@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>Is there anything else I can try/any more info I can give to help resolve? </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/error-with-domain-specific-email-addresses#post-13904 Fri, 16 Mar 2012 01:10:23 +0000 wsideborah 13904@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>This happens across several different servers. It seems if the email address of the notification email matches the domain name that the site resides at, we get this error returned. </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/error-with-domain-specific-email-addresses#post-13753 Fri, 09 Mar 2012 07:52:27 +0000 yuniar 13753@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>The mail agent on that server doesn't seems to be running properly or it might be down? Try to configure your MachForm with SMTP server if you have one. </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/error-with-domain-specific-email-addresses#post-13747 Fri, 09 Mar 2012 03:48:12 +0000 wsideborah 13747@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>We run websites for several clients and I've run into this issue a few times already and I'm really curious what the problem is.<br /> The client has email set up with their domain name. When we launch a new site for them and change their A record to point to the new site without affecting their email, the forms always give back this error:<br /> "Error sending email: Could not instantiate mail function."<br /> The email accounts still function normally. Machform just refuses to work with any email address that matches their domain name. </p>