The way I understand it working is that the receiving IMail server will
check the rcpt to on itself first. If it doesn't exist it then looks for a
peer list. If one exists it do a VRFY User to the peer list until it either
finds it or bounces it as unknown user.
Eric S
----- Original Message -----
From: "Craig Morgan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2000 8:54 PM
Subject: [IMail Forum] Imail Peering
> We are looking at using Imail and I just had a question about peering.
When
> an email is send to a domain which has multiple Imail servers using
peering.
>
> Is the complete message sent to the first server and then passed onto the
> next server because the user wasn't found on the first server?
>
> Or does the server sending the message to our domain query all the servers
> in the peering list until it finds that user and then sends the complete
> message directly to the server which that user is listed on?
>
> Cheers
> Craig
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