Kevin,
That could explain the trouble! IMail V5 was out well before W2K was
available (even in beta), so it might not have the stuff needed to check the
registry in W2K.
Daniel Donnelly
________________________________________________________
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Forte" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2001 2:34 PM
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Stack connect fail
> 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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