Your host and host aliases information is in the registry. IMail is first checking to
see if the recipient is local.
- Frank Williams
> 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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