yes: upas tries to look up the mx record.
dnslookup smtp.east.cox.net
fails. there is a problem with their setup.
however, upas/smtp should fall back to the a record.
i wonder why that is not happening.
the function you're interested in is in upas/smtp/mxdial.c
- erik
Marina Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
|
| Here is the log of the mail failure and of a successfull telnet
| to the smtp host.
|
| term% cat E*
| smtp: dns: dns failure (net!smtp.east.cox.net)
| term% telnet net!smtp.east.cox.net!25
| connected to net!smtp.east.cox.net!25 on /net/tcp/0
| 220 eastrmmtao06.cox.net ESMTP server (InterMail vM.6.01.05.02
| 201-2131-123-102-20050715) ready Wed, 8 Mar 2006 02:58:33 -0500
|
|
| Any ideas ?
|
| I read and post news (NNTP) using Acme news, but acme mail still will
| not work.
|
| ---- Marina Brown
