Daniel,
I have to disagree with you on one point. It may supposed to work that
Imail checks DNS MX records first and then goes to the domain name, but I
have logs showing just the oposite. I have had a LARGE number of
complaints about users being unkown and when I check the Imail logs it
turns out that Imail has tried to deliver the one and only time to the
www.domain.name or domain.name NOT the MX records entry for that domain.name.
This increase in failures seemed to start right after 6.00 went on. We
have seen a number of people post items on this list concerning related
problems.
Gerry
At 11:02 AM 11/17/2000 -0500, Daniel Donnelly wrote:
>John,
>
>I can see one way that a message might be returned with 'unknown user'.
>
>As you know IMail tries MX records first and if all those fail, will try the
>IP for the domain. So, if the MX hosts are down or unresponsive, then the
>domains IP is tried (today, usually the web server, not a mail server) and a
>SMTP server is found, IMail will attempt delivery. However if that mail
>server (on the Web Server) is not configured to accept that domain/user, it
>won't allow IMail to send, so IMail then bounces back to the sender, most
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