Making DNS changes may not fix the problem, unless one of the changes is the
IP for the 'mail' host. Since I could not connect to IMail, I have to
believe either something is blocking the connection or IMail is not
installed or the IP in DNS is not correct.
Daniel Donnelly
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Balaji" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 9:59 PM
Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Need Advise.
> Thank you and I will make changes
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Daniel Donnelly
> Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 6:54 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Need Advise.
>
>
> It means that there is probably something wrong in DNS so the server
cannot
> find what it needs to establish a SMTP connection the destination server.
> Let's see...take the domain name and stick it in a Lookup tool and get:
>
> ePasito.com.
> nameserver = NS1.LACURACAO.com.
> nameserver = NS2.LACURACAO.com.
> 64.160.19.196
> *OK so far* Now for MX records:
> ePasito.com.
> 10, 64.160.19.196.
> 10, mail.ePasito.com.
> ** Yuck!! MX records with IP instead of hostname are violation of RFC,
> remove it!**
>
> mail.ePasito.com.
> 64.160.19.196
> **OK, too**
>
> Now try to connect to the mail.ePasito.com host SMTP service, using
> Telnet... Not successful! Since that name and the domain name resolve to
the
> same address, even a fallback to the IP for the domain will fail. So it
> would appear that no mail server is available!!
>
> Just for grins, I tried port 110 (POP3) and could not connect to IMail
> there, either. And port 106 (password server) was also not successful.
>
> Daniel Donnelly
> ________________________________________________________
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Balaji" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 9:49 PM
> Subject: [IMail Forum] Need Advise.
>
>
> > Hello!!
> >
> > I am getting the following message and I am not able to receive
messages.
> > Please advise.
> >
> >
> > Message from yahoo.com.
> > Unable to deliver message to the following address(es).
> >
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > Sorry, I wasn't able to establish an SMTP connection. (#4.4.1)
> > I'm not going to try again; this message has been in the queue too
> > long.
> >
> >
> > Thank you
> > Balaji.
> >
> >
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