Kevin,
As a quick test upon your arrival at the site, in the SMTP settings, change
the DNS IP to one that you KNOW works (I have had people use ours for short
periods of time for testing, just be sure you remove our IP when done!).
If IMail is not using the MX records, that tells me it is not _getting_ the
MX records!
Daniel Donnelly
Ipswitch Technical Support
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Coveney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2000 9:30 AM
Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Imail sending mail to the A record insteadof the
MX record
> no all the mail go bounced back to the senders... I off on a site visit
> today to check the install and registry.
>
> Thanks
> -Kevin
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Len Conrad
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2000 5:03 AM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Imail sending mail to the A record insteadof
> > the MX record
> >
> >
> >
> > >I this problem that Imail appears to be sending mail directly to the
DNS
> > >A record as opposed to the MX records. Below are three snips of the log
> > >showing the stack connect fails to the A record, and no reference of
the
> > >MX record
> > >being tried.
> >
> > SMTP clients will attempt to deliver mail to a domain's A record,
> > if MX is
> > not found, or maybe if none of the MX records are reachable. MX was
> > invented to allow separation of the SMTP server host at the MX record ip
> > from the domain host at the A record ip.
> >
> > "dig netzero.net mx" returns 3 "MX 10" records but none of them
> > have the ip
> > address 209.247.162.59.
> >
> > "dig -x 209.247.162.59" returns a PTR record pointing to
www.netzero.net.
> >
> > Don't know why your Imail was futzing around with .59. Hard to
> > say. We're
> > pretty sure Imail's smtp client knows how to do DNS lookups, vbg,
> > so I bet
> > it got handed some bad poop by a bad cache somewhere.
> >
> > Same dig story with cbn.net.id.
> >
> > btw, did the mail ever get delivere?
> >
> > Len
> >
> > ================
> >
> >
> > >I did lookups on the domains and they showed valid MX records
> > that I could
> > >connect to via telnet, but still Imail was sending to the
> > address listed in
> > >the A record.
> >
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> >
>
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