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. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The avalanche has already started, it is too Rod Dorman late for the pebbles to vote." � Ambassador Kosh To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
