> Besides changing that domain A record back to point to my mailserver,
> how else can we fix things so that I don't lose any mail? I'd like
> not to add an MX record for that machine, because I'm not trying to
> encourage any mail to go to that box, but neither do I want them to
> refuse any.
We're in a same situation with our declude.com domain. We have 2 MX records pointing
to our main IMail server, and a backup server. Our web host, that controls our DNS,
has an A record for declude.com that points to the web server (which is kind of nice,
and the standard these days, so that people who forget the "www" still get to our web
site).
Mail should *always* be delivered to our primary or backup mail server, unless they
are both unreachable, in which case it is acceptable for the remote mail server to go
to the A record. Unfortunately, recent versions of IMail occasionally go to the A
record first, so people get a nasty bounce message that make it look like you've gone
out of business.
Your options are either to get rid of the A record for domain.com, or add your domain
to the mail server running on that machine.
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-Scott
Declude: Anti-virus and Anti-spam solutions for IMail. http://www.declude.com
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