Daniel,
Just to clarify, I was installing IMAIL version 5.
Kevin
----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel Donnelly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, February 09, 2001 2:27 PM
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Stack connect fail
> Kevin,
>
> Gee, I wonder why we have not heard of a lot of this, now that W2K is more
> common?? Makes me wonder if something else (missing/bad registry data)
might
> be the cause. By now there must be at least a few hundred installs of
IMail
> on virgin W2K servers and you seem to be the only one with this problem.
> Could be a fluke, but I get the feeling that there must be some cause.
>
> Anybody out there who has installed IMail V6 on a new (never had IMail
> installed) W2K machine? Did you have this problem?
>
> Daniel Donnelly
> ________________________________________________________
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kevin Forte" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, February 09, 2001 3:45 PM
> Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Stack connect fail
>
>
> > 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
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > http://BIND8NT.MEIway.com : Binary for ISC BIND 8.2.3 for NT4 &
W2K
> > > > > http://IMGate.MEIway.com : Build free, hi-perf, anti-spam mail
> > gateways
> > > > >
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