yes, if the reverse for the Imail machine's ip is not correct, some mail
servers will refuse to accept mail after they do a failed reverse
lookup. Your symptoms certainly match the pb.
Len
===========
>Yeah they are ... I actually unistalled the mail server last night and
>reinstalled everything (kept the registry keys for each domain and the user
>folders) ... Still having the problem with forwarding though.
>
>I did find out that our provider isn't pointing the reverse DNS to us ..
>which I'm trying to get taken care of. According to IPSwitch's KB, bad
>reverse DNS records can cause this problem. Got my fingers crossed.
>
>Ansley
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Robert Stull
>Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2000 6:31 AM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] forwarding not working
>
>
>Are the addresses in
>IMail Control Panel->SMTP->Domain Name Server address
>correct?
>
>Bob
>
>In reply to 29 Feb message from [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
>
> >When we added the new Class C, I added new hosts with
> >the new IP address for each host that we were using.
> >(The IPs we were using won't work anymore). People
> >that access mail with POP3 or Web Mail have no
> >problems. Receiving works all around, but sending mail
> >on some hosts gets stuck in the spool and mail that is
> >sent to an alias account doesn't work if the address
> >is outside our system.
>
> >I've been looking through the KB for any help on this
> >and have double checked all their ideas. Have any
> >others?
>
> >Ansley
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf
> >Of Len Conrad Sent: Tuesday, February 29, 2000 4:20
> >PM
> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] forwarding not working
>
>
> >have you modified your NT hosts file in include your
> >own new Class C?
>
> >This bit me when we went to new ip's.
>
> >Len
>
> >================
>
>
>
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>We've got a strange problem happening on the mail server,
>running IMail
> >>5.06. Mail is bouncing back to the users. It doesn't happen to every
> >>message (or user). On Friday, we installed a new Class C
>on the machine
> >>and had to change the IP address for each Mail Host. The problems have
> >>been happening since then.
> >>
> >>I have cleaned out the spool and checked the registry
>entries. I'm out of
> >>ideas now. If anyone can shed some light on possible
>reasons/solutions for
> >>this, I'd appreciate it.
> >>
> >>Ansley
>
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