> Why bad design ?... It works very fine with many customers on mine. Because, as I explained, publishing hostnames in public DNS MX RRs even though you know them to be unreachable is a bad practice. It creates troubleshooting confusion and wasted traffic with no net benefit.
In your scenario, you are routing to users @office.domain.com _not_ using the DNS MX record for office.domain.com (there is none), but using its A record. You might just as well put office.domain.com in your IMail server's HOSTS file and leave it at that (though using DNS for just that A record is reasonable in its own right). --Sandy ------------------------------------ Sanford Whiteman, Chief Technologist Broadleaf Systems, a division of Cypress Integrated Systems, Inc. e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SpamAssassin plugs into Declude! http://www.imprimia.com/products/software/freeutils/SPAMC32/download/release/ Defuse Dictionary Attacks: Turn Exchange or IMail mailboxes into IMail Aliases! http://www.imprimia.com/products/software/freeutils/exchange2aliases/download/release/ http://www.imprimia.com/products/software/freeutils/ldap2aliases/download/release/ To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
