This issue was address a while ago. I believe in 7.04 HF1. Eric S ----- Original Message ----- From: "Len Conrad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 11:57 AM Subject: Re[2]: [IMail Forum] Sending to Earthlink???
> > >I have tried and successfully used the host file if I don't want to IMail > >to send to the A DNS record. Find a correct MX record for earthlink and > >put it in the hosts file. IMail looks here first and if it finds the > >domain here it doesn't do a DNS lookup. That should work. I have several > >domains that I handle this way (about half dozen). > > yes, in the "name resolution process", the Win32 search is hosts file then DNS. > > >Downside: If earthlink changes it's MX record you have to manually make > >the change to the hosts file as well. > > yep. you're hardwiring the MX (and only one of them) for that domain. > > Len > > http://MenAndMice.com/DNS-training > http://BIND8NT.MEIway.com : ISC BIND 8.2.4 for NT4 & W2K > http://IMGate.MEIway.com : Build free, hi-perf, anti-abuse mail gateways > > > 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/
