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I have set up a new email account on a vps,

I can download by pop3 the emails but if i send email to that account i receive the error 'unknown user' while if i send emails by a gmail account everything works.

any suggestion? is it a client or a server problem?

the vps is a centos web server with other working email accounts thunderbird is on windows 7

i try sending email other email accounts usually working without problems.

do you need other details?

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You need to give details of what you've "setted" (I presume you mean 'setup'?). What OS, what mail software, what settings are you using? Not enough information at the moment. – Coops Jul 6 '11 at 11:13
Edited......... – joeqwerty Jul 6 '11 at 11:24

migrated from serverfault.com Jul 6 '11 at 11:32

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I guess the server logs may give you the answer you're looking for.

Secondly you can test your email account using raw telnet like this:

telnet yourserver.com 25
hello clientname
mail from: sender@example.com
rcpt to: new_email_account@yourserver.com
data
Hello world
.
quit
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