Well I just tried to circumvent the error by just emailing domain.com and got a 550... relaying prohibited.
-----Original Message----- From: Marty Richards [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 9:46 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Sloooowww delivery of e-mail Are there any differences in the MX records for mail.domain.com and domain.com? The DNS zones for these domains are hosted on the same server? If you try to send some mail manually, via telnet, do you see any suspicious looking errors? Cheers, Marty > -----Original Message----- > From: Preston Jeffares [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 11:39 PM > To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues > Subject: Sloooowww delivery of e-mail > > > I'm seeing a rather strange problem here. When users attempt > to send mail to 1 particular domain... it's taking hours for > the mail to get there. I have seen this once before. Here's > what I see happening: > > Users on my side are attempting to email people at another > domain. The e-mail addresses published for this domain are > [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead of the typical [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a mx record. They do have a mx record... and if you > email the remote site @domain.com the mail arrives in a > matter of seconds. However if you e-mail > [EMAIL PROTECTED] it takes hours. > > So, the simple answer is to just tell people to e-mail > [EMAIL PROTECTED] However, I need an answer as to why this is > happening so that I can clear our side of any wrong doing. > > Preston > > List Charter and FAQ at: > http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm > List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
