RE: [IMail Forum] 552 Requested mail action aborted: exceededstorage allocation

Tue, 11 Feb 2003 10:31:31 -0800 



In this case, my recommendation would be to keep the mail2 A record, but

remove it from the MX record.  That way, there won't be any

confusion.  Mail will still be delivered as normal, except if your

server  isn't reachable, you ensure that other mailservers will only have 
to try

once before realizing that your server isn't reachable.



I wasn't aware that mail could be delivered without an mx record.


Technically, it can, but that isn't the issue here.




So, you are saying, remove the mail2.todhunter.com mx record from DNS, but
leave the mail2 host entry?



Yes.




No offense, but, you sure that is going to work? I will catch holy h*ll
if my internal users can't send or receive email!




Here are the relevant MX and A records right now:



        todhunter.com.  MX      IN      3600    mail.todhunter.com. 
[Preference = 10]

        todhunter.com.  MX      IN      3600    mail2.todhunter.com. 
[Preference = 10]

        mail.todhunter.com.     A       IN      3600    24.73.160.163

        mail2.todhunter.com.    A       IN      3600    24.73.160.163



This says that a mailserver should try either mail.todhunter.com or 
mail2.todhunter.com.  In either case, the same IP of 24.73.160.163 will be 
used.  I'm suggesting you change it to:



        todhunter.com.  MX      IN      3600    mail.todhunter.com. 
[Preference = 10]

        mail.todhunter.com.     A       IN      3600    24.73.160.163

        mail2.todhunter.com.    A       IN      3600    24.73.160.163



In this case, it says that a mailserver should try mail.todhunter.com (at 
24.73.160.163).  So mailservers will still send mail to the same 
place.  Any mail clients that refer to mail2.todhunter.com will still reach 
your mailserver, as well.



Changing an MX record will only affect mail delivery to the domain from 
mailservers, and won't affect mail clients or anything else.



                                                   -Scott

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