>I have a mailing list subscriber who has the domain:
>
>zivsmilestudio.com
>
>There is a MX record for delivery of mail.
# dig zivsmilestudio.com mx
; <<>> DiG 8.2 <<>> zivsmilestudio.com mx
;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
;; got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 4
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2
;; QUERY SECTION:
;; zivsmilestudio.com, type = MX, class = IN
;; ANSWER SECTION:
zivsmilestudio.com. 59m46s IN MX 30 204.119.47.187.
This is an illegal MX record. The MX data must be FQHN, not ip address.
>When watching the session with the Syslog on the monitor. I get the
>following session:
>
>SMTPD (001200B2) [xxxx] RCPT TO: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>SMTPD (001200B2) [xxxx] e:\IMail\spool\D289a0b2.SMD 629
at this point Imail's SMTPD server has identified the domain
zivsmilestudio.com and perhaps the user (Imail won't care about user
if nobody alias exists for the domain) and so has accepted the mail
and queued the msg.
>SMTP (394) processing e:\IMail\spool\Q289a0b2.SMD
>SMTP (394) Creating message from Postmaster
>SMTP (394) finished e:\IMail\spool\Q289a0b2.SMD status=2
0 = general unknown failure (Should never be seen)
1 = delivered
2 = returned with error
3 = queued for later delivery
>It appears that SMTP never tries to even make a delivery attempt, it
>just bounces the message back as "Unknown Host".
I would have thought that the Imail SMTPD server, if the host was
unknown, would have rejected the msg, rather than queuing it.
>The DNS record has an IP # versus a FQDN, could this be the problem?
The "SMTP client" sending the mail accepted the illegal the ip
address to find Imail, so that's working. But fix your broken DNS.
# telnet 204.119.47.187 25
Trying 204.119.47.187...
Connected to 204.119.47.187.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 X1 NT-ESMTP Server calliope.wdol.com (IMail 5.05 20205-1)
ehlo sv
250-calliope.wdol.com says hello
250-SIZE 9000000
250-8BITMIME
250-DSN
250-ETRN
250 EXPN
mail from:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
250 ok
rcpt to:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
250 ok its for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
data
354 ok, send it; end with <CRLF>.<CRLF>
qlfqjmfljqsfklmq
.
250 Message queued
exit
quit
221 Goodbye
Connection closed by foreign host.
It sure looks like the Imail SMTPD server has found
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> as a local account + domain. Kinda hard to
say why when SMTP client picks up the queued msg that it's not
delivered. I didn't get any bounced msg back. What does Imail say
to postmaster? Do you have a nobody alias on that domain?
Len
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