I can't explain it... which means it must have been some kind of cockpit error, but you are right. This time when I made the change everything has worked perfectly. I hate things I can't explain. Thanks for nudging me to try it again... I'll watch closely for a while just in case. _M
| -----Original Message----- | From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Len Conrad | Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 6:40 PM | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Remote Gateway Option | | | | >I tried this myself a week or so ago and got similar results (actually a | >mail loop - it was painful). | | It works for all Imgate users, afaik. Nobody has complained about "Imail | send all to gateway" not working. | | > Any chance there's something going on here that | >we don't know about that could cause this result? I would like | to be able to | >offload my outgoing mail to my Postfix box, but until I learn something | >different I'm not going to try it again. | | mail for Imail should stop at imail, and never be relayed out to the | gateway ip, period. | | >If I get a chance to try it again I will hunt down the Imail | logs and send | >them in. | >I can say that when I set the outgoing server, all mail - no | matter where it | >was bound - immediately started bouncing between servers. | | Your gateway will of course find resolve the @Imaildomains to the ip of | Imail, and send it to Imail. Imail should see that the recipient mail is | local to Imail and deliver. Imail should never relay it out again. | | > From the postfix | >log, the IMail server dropped it off, the postfix server tried | to deliver it | >back to the Imail box, and the Imail box refused saying the | message had been | >there before. I wasn't pressed so I just turned it off. | | try it again briefly, and let's see the gdeliver lines from Imail where | Imail is sending localdomain out of the Imail, that would really | be a bug. | | Len | | http://MenAndMice.com/DNS-training | http://BIND8NT.MEIway.com : ISC BIND 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/
