I am setting up my first listserv and am having difficulties.  The client's email is hosted at their site and is set up in the MX record for the top level domain - [EMAIL PROTECTED].  I need to host the listserv on our IMail server (separate from the client's site) and am using the sub-domain [EMAIL PROTECTED] as the address.  We have set up the MX record for this and lists.domain.com resolves to the proper IP address on our machine when pinged.

@       MX  10  theirmail.domain.com.
@       MX  20  lists.domain.com.
mail    MX  10  theirmail.domain.com. 
mail    MX  20  lists.domain.com.
lists   MX  10  lists.domain.com.
lists   MX  20  theirmail.domain.com. 

theirmail  A   ip.theirmail
lists      A   ip.yourlistbox

There. you've got each mail server providing backup MX for other. 

The weird thing is the interaction between the top level domain and the sub-domain.  When sending something to lists.domain.com it is returned from the client's email server at domain.com.

spooky

I am assuming this is a routing problem and is somehow tied in with the MX record.

good assumption as any.

Is there anything I need to do in IMail when trying to have regular mail routed to one server while setting up a sub-domain to handle the listserv on another server?

You have created the Imail virtual mailhost  "lists.domain.com" ?

Len

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