><<<scanfrentz.com is broken.>>>>
>
>I need to find a way to get mail to them regardless of whether their DNS
>is screwed up or not.
OK. It is possible, if you must, and sometimes you must.
><<<<I believe your only option to get mail to them would be to add an
>entry to
>your HOSTS file but that can cause problems later.>>>>>>>>>>
>
>Would this be in the hosts file on the imail machine (as in the
>system32/drivers/etc folder or a hosts file in Imail somewhere itself?
That is correct, the \winnt\system32\drivers\etc\hosts file. You would add
a line like this:
192.89.123.25 scanfrentz.com
That way, you're hard-coding their secondary MX record to that IP. Note
that if they ever change IPs, you're not going to be able to send them
mail, and it may be difficult to troubleshoot if you forget this entry.
>What would happen if I told the people that need to send mail to this
>particular domain to use the address user@IP address of mail server that
>works? We are only talking about 5 people in the whole company that send
>mail to this domain.
That probably wouldn't work. The problem is that their backup mailserver
probably doesn't accept mail addressed that way (it might, but if so, it
would go to the "master" domain of the server -- which for a backup mail
server probably isn't the domain you want it to go to). Note that if
sending to an IP, the format "user@[192.168.114.112]" needs to be used
(with the brackets).
-Scott
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