Adolfo Justiniano wrote:
> I've been wondering since sometime ago if IMail has a serious bug: when
> a particular domain has an MX record with priority 0 the record is
> ignored by IMail, if also an A record doesn't exist for the domain it
> bounces the message with the Unknown host error message. Could someone
> else please confirm this?

What version are you running?  There have been changes to the MX algorithm.

> Besides that, IMail it's not able to deliver mail to an MX record who's
> address is an IP, not a name, I know that the RFC indicates that has to
> be a name but many admins don't know or by mistake include the IP in
> those records, many other mail servers are able to deliver to those
> domains, (sendmail, postfix, netscape, mdaemon, just to name a few) I
> just don't understand why the IMail development team doesn't include the
> code to interpret an IP in those records, sounds as an easy thing to do
> to me... I have several entries in my hosts file because of this and I
> really don't like it.

Its not difficult to do the right thing, if they're too lazy to fix it
they don't deserve to receive email.

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