What's the word for that throaty noise Daffy Duck makes when he shakes his head in confusion? I'm doing that.
Actually, your note helps lots. I see now that it was folly to expect IPNOTINMX to work with local users. RECOMMENDATION: When IPNOTINMX is officially adopted and added to the documentation, I humbly recommed a brief clarifying paragraph: "Expect mail from local IMail users to fail the IPNOTINMX test. In these transactions, the sending computer is typically a workstation -- not a mail server -- and, consequently, should not be expected to have a corresponding MX record." ...or some such thing. Thank you so much for all of your help. Glad to know nothin's broke. Dave "R. Scott Perry" wrote: > > >So, IPNOTINMX compares the MX IP against the SENDER (workstation) IP? > >Not the SENDING MAIL SERVER'S IP? > > The "remote computer" or "sending server" or "workstation" or "remote > mailserver" are all terms for the same thing -- whatever IP address > connects to IMail and wants to send mail. Neither IMail nor Declude knows > or cares whether the IP connecting to it is a workstation or a server. > > >To pass this test, wouldn't this require that the sender be seated at > >the mail server? When would there otherwise be an MX record matching > >the sender? I don't get it. > > What most people don't grasp initially is that E-mail is two ways, but both > ways work the same. My E-mail client connects to our mailserver in exactly > the same way that my mailserver connects to your mailserver. Your > mailserver will both accept incoming E-mail, as well as incoming+outgoing > E-mail from your users. > > The IPNOTINMX test is only relevant when mail is being sent to your > mailserver from somewhere other than one of your users. It is not relevant > when your users are sending mail. > > So yes, in order to pass this test, a local user would have to be seated at > the mailserver (actually, they couldn't even pass it then, as the IP > address would be 127.0.0.1, but that's a different story). But, they > aren't expected to pass the test. > > When I send you E-mail, though, your mailserver will see our mailserver's > IP (66.189.58.123), which is in our MX record. Therefore, my mail won't > fail the IPNOTINMX test, and with the default settings my E-mail will have > its weight lowered by 4 points for that. > > To really grasp the power of this test, you need to realize that most of > the worst spammers (adult spammers, scams, etc.) will use a random return > address (or one on your domain). They then connect to a random mailserver > to send their E-mail. Because of that, their E-mail will rarely pass this > test. > -Scott > > --- > [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] > > --- > This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To > unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and > type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found > at http://www.mail-archive.com. --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com.
