I'm not shure if you understood the problem (read the entire thread), but
thanx anyway. Scott was a good help. 


Best regards
Claus Pedersen

-----Original Message-----
From: Len Conrad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: 28. februar 2002 11:34
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Imail do not send mail to backup mailservers



>Why should'nt Imail try the secondary mailservers if it get a 421?? 
>According to RFC821 the 421 error means: 421 <domain> Service not 
>available,
>              closing transmission channel

the service is not available to anybody, including the backup 
MX servers if 
your MTA sends to the backup MX servers.

>I thought that a secondary mailservers should be used in cases where 
>"<domain> Service not available",

no, where the SMTP service is not available. domain name 
service is not the 
issue.

>  why should I bother setting up a baskup
>server if it's only used when "<domain> Service is available" :-) Get 
>my point??

yes, but you've made up your own <point>.

>The ISP that I have the problem with, explained that the DNS setup was 
>made that way because their secondary mailservers is the only servers 
>that is allowed to send mail to the primary mailserver 
(security isue), 
>so all mailconnections is refused at the primary, accepted at the 
>secondary and forwarded to the primary from the secondary. They are a 
>huge ISP in Denmark and according to them a lot of others 
isp's has the 
>same config

ok, ask him to give us a list of these isp's.

If his mail server does not accept SMTP connections on port 25 from 
internet, it should not be listed as an MX host. There 
something fishy in .dk.

Len



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