Setup a Linux box with sendmail and let it deliver all of the outbound mail. You can specify the sendmail server in the SMTP settings in Imail under gateway options. It takes the burden of delivering email off of your imail server since imail sucks at delivering mail anyways.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Ed Chabot" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, December 14, 2001 2:10 PM Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] rejected mail to earthlink customers > Is the only fix an upgrade to 7.04? > > Ed Chabot > The Marlin Firearms Company > 100 Kenna Drive > North Haven, CT 06473 > (203)985-3254 > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of R. Scott Perry > Sent: Friday, December 14, 2001 12:36 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] rejected mail to earthlink customers > > > > >We have been getting mail rejected by the mail servers at Earthlink for the > >past few days. Is this a problem with our settings or Earthlinks? > > > >12:14 07:55 SMTP-(0000014D) Trying earthlink.net (0) > >12:14 07:55 SMTP-(0000014D) Connect earthlink.net [207.217.120.206:25] (2) > ... > >12:14 07:55 SMTP-(0000014D) >RCPT To:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >12:14 07:55 SMTP-(0000014D) 550 relaying to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> prohibited > >by administrator > > At first glance, it looks like a problem on their end. If you were > connecting to one of earthlink.net's mail servers, the logs would indicate > several problems on their end. > > However, what you are really dealing here is with the IMail bug (which > appears to be fixed in 7.04) where it would send to the A record if it > couldn't reach the MX records. Specifically, 207.217.120.206 is listed as > an A record for earthlink.net, but isn't listed as one of the MX records > for earthlink.net. > > Added with IMail's "no such user" bounce message (without indicating the > error code), it makes the sender of the E-mail think that the recipient no > longer exists. > > -Scott > --- > Declude: Anti-virus, Anti-spam and Anti-hijacking solutions for > IMail. http://www.declude.com > > --- > [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus > (http://www.declude.com)] > > > Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > to be removed from this list. > > An Archive of this list is available at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > > > Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > to be removed from this list. > > An Archive of this list is available at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/
