The settings were there before installing IMAIL...That is why I over looked
the setting in IMAIL. I just assumed it would put the DNS server IP in
there. Oh well...
----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel Donnelly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, February 09, 2001 2:58 PM
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Stack connect fail
> Details, details, details!!!
>
> Were the settings in TCPIP there and correct, before IMail was installed?
I
> would still expect IMail to find the DNS IP(s) and use it, even under
2000.
>
> I have played a bit with 2K and the TCPIP stuff is different. In
particular,
> under NT, one could have a different FQDN for TCPIP (it warned you, but
> would accept whatever you said) than for other protocols. I could not find
a
> way to do that in 2K.
>
> Daniel Donnelly
> ________________________________________________________
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kevin Forte" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, February 09, 2001 1:41 PM
> Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Stack connect fail
>
>
> > OK guys. Sometimes the smallest oversight can cause the most problems.
I
> > have installed Imail probably 5 different times, every time on an NT 4.0
> > machine. This was the first server I installed on a Win 2000 machine.
It
> > turns out that the Imail Install will enter the DNS entires from the
> TCP/IP
> > settings on the NT 4.0 machine, but this time with my Win 2000 machine
it
> > did not. Therefore, all my connect fails were due to the fact that the
> > IMAIL SMTP setting was blank. After entering in my DNS server and
> > stop/start the service, I am not getting the problems any more.
> >
> > Thanks for all the other help guys.
> >
> > Kevin
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Len Conrad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Friday, February 09, 2001 10:57 AM
> > Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Stack connect fail
> >
> >
> > >
> > > >I am actually talking about the domain "pcstrading.com".
> > > >
> > > >I just made some changes to my SOA entries. Here are the ettings:
> > > >
> > > >Refresh Rate: 3600 Seconds
> > > >Retry Rate: 7200 Seconds
> > > >Expire Time: 604800 Seconds
> > > >Time To Live: 3600 Seconds
> > > >
> > > >Should I make any changes
> > >
> > > TTL of 1 Hour is pretty short so you DNS will see a lot more traffic
> > > vs TTL of 1D, but the old records with the previous TTL that are
> > > already cached in other DNS's, you can't call them back, but can only
> > > wait for them to expire.
> > >
> > > > or is my stack connect fail a different problem?
> > >
> > > Daniel explained the stack connect fail. And Scott said that these
> > > big ISP's frequently have MX hosts that are just not working right.
> > >
> > > If your Imail is having trouble sending to other servers, I really
> > > doubt that it's due to your DNS changes. If they were having trouble
> > > sending to you, then that would be explainable by them using your
> > > previous cached values while you current values were different.
> > >
> > > Len
> > >
> > >
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