Hi.
Below is an information taken from Ipswitche's knowledge base about how the
Imail server
finds the host and IP address for mail delivery.
Here's my questions:
1. My question is in step "a" and "b". Does Imail checks the recepient's
mail host server either IP
address or FQDN in the Imail registry ? Why would a recepient's mail
host address be in
the registry ?
Thanks,
Jaime
-----From IMAIL knowledge base -----
The sequence that IMail uses to resolve/deliver mail is:
a. check for the host in IMail registry
b. check for the host alias in IMail registry
c. check for the host in "WINNT\...\etc\hosts"
d. perform an MX lookup for the host on the DNS server defined in Control
Panel -> IMail -> SMTP -> Domain name server
e. perform an A lookup (for the MX record above) on the DNS server defined
in Control Panel -> IMail -> SMTP -> Domain name server
e1. if a CNAME came back on e., then goes back to d. with the new response
f. asks the NT network stack for an A lookup of the domain name
g. prints "stack connect fail" on name
The routine above returns at any point in the sequence if a correct answer
is found.
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