What I have been told from IPSWITCH is that you should never have
an MX record pointing to a cname record.
for my domains I have 2 MX records and 2 A records.
kaigler
---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Rizwan Rasheed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 08:49:45 -0700
>Daniel,
>
>Let me tell everyone again that Imail works FINE for like 2 days
in a row, no problems whatsoever! Emails destined to my domain
(gowebserver.com) and other customers domains that I host work
without any problems.
>
>But then all of a sudden - boom - mail sits in the Queue because
you can see it from the View Queue button.
>
>So let me ask this simple question, why would mail sit in the
queue .. especially for local domains? And why would it just pick
right up if I push it a bit with the send one command?
>
>The reason you see mail.gowebserver.com and
mailhost1.gowebserver.com is as follows:
>
>In my DNS I have set up records as such:
>
>"A" Record called mailhost1 pointing to 206.124.163.134
>creating a FQDN of mailhost1.gowebserver.com
>
>I also have a "CNAME" record called mail pointing to
>mailhost1.gowebserver.com creating a FQDN of mail.gowebserver.com
>
>And "MX" record for gowebserver.com pointing to
mailhost1.gowebserver.com with priority 10
>
>Thank you all for your help!
>
>---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
>From: "Daniel Donnelly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 10:02:15 -0500
>
>>So you have 2 domains in IMail, with 'gowebserver.com' in the
name? I know
>>you have one, 'mailhost.gowebserver.com' and it appears that
there is
>>another with just 'gowebserver.com'. If you do, the problem is
your
>>configuration and possibly a name resolution issue, not IMail!
>>Here is a telnet session to your server that illustrates the
'problem':
>>
>>220 X1 NT-ESMTP Server mailhost1.gowebserver.com (IMail 6.06
731-1)
>>ehlo test
>>250-mailhost1.gowebserver.com says hello
>>250-SIZE 0
>>250-8BITMIME
>>250-DSN
>>250-ETRN
>>250-AUTH LOGIN CRAM-MD5
>>250-AUTH=LOGIN
>>250 EXPN
>>vrfy root
>>252 Cannot VRFY user
>>mail from: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>250 ok
>>rcpt to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>550 not local host ipswitch.com, not a gateway
>>rcpt to:sales
>>550 unknown user <sales>
>>rcpt to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>250 ok its for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>rcpt to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>550 unknown user <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>
>>Daniel Donnelly
>>________________________________________________________
>>
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Rizwan Rasheed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>Sent: Monday, March 19, 2001 12:37 AM
>>Subject: [IMail Forum] la la email and
>>
>>
>>> OK,
>>>
>>> My email to la la land problem is back.
>>>
>>> What happens is that inbound email arrives at my imail server,
but can't
>>be picked up by pop3 client or web messaging.
>>>
>>> >From Imail Administrator, from the General tab, clicked on
View Queue
>>button and saw 56 messages. I clicked on each file name and saw
that some
>>were destined to outside servers (like @aol.com) and others were
inbound
>>([EMAIL PROTECTED])
>>>
>>> So I clicked on each file name and clicked on Send One.
>>>
>>> I did this for a few of them.
>>>
>>> A few minutes later, I came back to the screen and all
messages were
>>delivered! There were 0 left in the queue! I was able to check
my pop3
>>client and it would pick up the mail that was waiting!
>>>
>>> This is starting to become VERY annoying.
>>>
>>> I just don't see why inbound mail is in the queue and why
clicking on send
>>one will make it go.
>>>
>>> Any help is really appreciated .. before I *gasp* start
looking at other
>>mail systems...!!!
>>>
>>> Please visit
http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html
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>>>
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>>
>>
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