>We had our zone file modified so that the A record for WWW points to that
>machine
ok
>and [and I understand that this is where the difficulty lies] we
>also changed the A record for the domain itself to point to that machine as
>well.
ok
>That machine is also running IMail as it turns out, just not for us.
no problem
>Here's my question: if mail destined for users in my domain hits that
>machine through whatever DNS process, it gets refused.
Of course, that Imail doesn't know about your domain, your mail will
be rejected.
>Besides changing that domain A record back to point to my mailserver
why do that?
>how else can we fix things
what's broken?
>so that I don't lose any mail?
Are you losing mail?
Mail follows the MX record(s) for a domain, not the A record. Keep
you MX(s) running, and you won't lose mail.
>I'd like not to add an MX record for that machine
Your mail is not hosted on that machine.
>because I'm not trying to encourage any mail to go to that box,
no, your mail is not hosted on that machine.
> but neither do I want them to refuse any.
??? If you keep your MX(s) running for you domain, your mail won't
go to your domain's A record.
Keep your A record over there (if you want your visitors to visit
http://domain.com).
What you might do is see if your new web server's Imail can be
secondary MX for your own Imail.
Len
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