Kevin,
IMail SMTP reports V5.00. Been a looong time since I used that version and
it quickly became V5.03 and V5.04 was pretty solid. Eventually it was
updated to V5.08. Guess you could not spend the time (or did not know where
to go) to get the free updates posted on Ipswitch site. Sorry, but I do not
remember what the problems were with that version. I don't think this was
one of them and if it were you would have been having problems for over 2
years, not just now. When you said 'I just set up my IMAIL server about 12
hours ago', I expect it to be a V6.05 server, not V5.00. Did you just buy
this software? From who? I'd not be happy if I bought something over 2 years
old, if I though it was supposed to be 'new'!
Here is what I just got from DNS query:
pcstrading.com.
nameserver = DNS31.REGISTER.COM.
nameserver = DNS32.REGISTER.COM.
208.179.251.150
10, mail.pcstrading.com.
mail.pcstrading.com.
208.179.251.150
150.251.179.208.in-addr.arpa.
host = mail.pcstrading.com.
Looks OK, for the basics needed for email. The hostname is what I used when
I discovered the version of IMail. IMail responded pretty normally. However,
SMTP is set to be an open relay and I was able to send myself a message
using your server. If I can, then you can be sure others will be able to
send email anywhere and 'blame' you.
Daniel Donnelly
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Forte" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, February 09, 2001 10:44 AM
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Stack connect fail
> Len,
>
> 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 or is my stack connect fail a different problem?
>
> Thanks
>
> Kevin
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Len Conrad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, February 09, 2001 10:16 AM
> Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Stack connect fail
>
>
> >
> > >Could someone explain exactly why IMAIL has trouble sending email to
> > >major mail providers at times. My smtp fails all the time and must
> > >resort to sending through my default mail host.
> > >
> > >I just set up my IMAIL server about 12 hours ago and my reverse DNS
> lookup
> > >has not yet propagated to all DNS servers.
> >
> > there's no such thing as "propagation".
> >
> > >Is this why? Should I be patient and wait for reverse DNS to
propagate?
> >
> > It ain't going to happen. If a DNS client queries your DNS, it
> > queries your DNS NOW! there's no propagation delay.
> >
> > >Is there a setting I can check to make sure this is my problem? Many
> > >domains work, but the big ones seem to reject the most:
> > >
> > >i.e. @home.com, @yahoo.com, etc..
> > >
> > >When I do an nslookup for my ip from the @home DNS servers, they are
> still
> > >showing the old entry.
> >
> > that's not propagation, that's TTL delay where your old records in
> > their caches have not yet expired. if you're talking about futuretrade:
> >
> > # dig futuretrade.com mx
> >
> > ; <<>> DiG 8.2 <<>> futuretrade.com mx
> > ;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
> > ;; got answer:
> > ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 4
> > ;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 4
> > ;; QUERY SECTION:
> > ;; futuretrade.com, type = MX, class = IN
> >
> > ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> > futuretrade.com. 1D IN MX 60 mh2.cts.com.
> > futuretrade.com. 1D IN MX 50 mail.futuretrade.com.
> >
> > ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
> > futuretrade.com. 1D IN NS ns.cts.com.
> > futuretrade.com. 1D IN NS news.cts.com.
> >
> >
> > there is currently a 1Day TTL. So if caching is your pb, then 1Day
> > is the max it will require before all the old records expire.
> >
> > Use dig to query the other NS's and see how much is left. My
> > nameserver shows this now based on the query I made about 3 minutes
> > ago to your NS:
> >
> > # dig futuretrade.com mx
> >
> > ; <<>> DiG 8.2 <<>> futuretrade.com mx
> > ;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
> > ;; got answer:
> > ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 4
> > ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 3
> > ;; QUERY SECTION:
> > ;; futuretrade.com, type = MX, class = IN
> >
> > ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> > futuretrade.com. 23h57m28s IN MX 50 mail.futuretrade.com.
> > futuretrade.com. 23h57m28s IN MX 60 mh2.cts.com.
> >
> > see, no more 1Day, but "23h57m28s".
> >
> > look here:
> >
> > # dig +norec @ns1.home.net futuretrade.com any
> >
> > ; <<>> DiG 8.2 <<>> +norec @ns1.home.net futuretrade.com any
> > ; (1 server found)
> > ;; res options: init defnam dnsrch
> > ;; got answer:
> > ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 28831
> > ;; flags: qr ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2
> > ;; QUERY SECTION:
> > ;; futuretrade.com, type = ANY, class = IN
> >
> > ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> > futuretrade.com. 5h31m8s IN NS NEWS.CTS.COM.
> > futuretrade.com. 5h31m8s IN NS NS.CTS.COM.
> >
> > ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
> > futuretrade.com. 5h31m8s IN NS NEWS.CTS.COM.
> > futuretrade.com. 5h31m8s IN NS NS.CTS.COM.
> >
> > ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
> > NEWS.CTS.COM. 2h20m36s IN A 192.188.72.21
> > NS.CTS.COM. 1h34m43s IN A 192.188.72.18
> >
> >
> > See the TTL times being less than 1Day ? That's how much longer your
> > records will live in the ns1.home.net cache.
> >
> > btw, I doubt this has anyting to do with "MX connect fail". Have you
> > tried to telnet to those ip's that your Imail can't connnect to?
> >
> > Len
> >
> >
> >
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