Thanks for the input but I think that its not what I am really looking for.
Basically I really could care less about the scubaont.com's email coming through. I have about 500 domains already on my imail server and all is good that way. I am building a secondary queue server in case Imail goes down at some point. The way I understand it is If the first mx record ( in mx 10 mail.scubaont.com) does not answer, or returns an invalid response it should go to the secondary record which is mx2.statusconcepts.com. So I removed mail.scubaont.com from the imail server so that it would give the response of basically, this domain is not here. At that point as I understand it the mail should be rerouted by the mail server that sent the mail through to the second mx record on file and see if it gets a valid response from that server. Currently its not getting to the second MX record in the list. Is what I have above correct? Darryl Koster ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Status Technologies Inc. President/Owner "Let Us Help You Get The Status You Deserve!" http://www.statustechnologies.com P: (905) 435-0145 TF (NA) 888-909-9004 F: (905) 435-0873 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Len Conrad Sent: Saturday, February 22, 2003 10:13 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Am I missing something >Here is the log file saying its an invalid user. Once it gets this it should >bounce it to the secondary mx record to hold onto it. In the MX algorithm, lower preference MX's are never contacted after higher preference MX gives an SMTP response like "550 invalid user". The MX algorithm does not say "hey, any of you other MX's for domain.com want to that this msg that of you has rejected" >02:22 06:25 SMTPD(172500AE) [64.135.81.11] MAIL >FROM:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >02:22 06:25 SMTPD(172500AE) [64.135.81.11] RCPT TO:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >02:22 06:25 SMTPD(172500AE) [64.135.81.11] ERR mail.statustechnologies.com >invalid user <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Basically it never gets there. no, it's rejected by Imail and the SMTP client has to deal with the reject. And by reading the logs, you have discovered that removing scubaont from Imail has Imail acting correctly. >I have other domains that this is working with no problem (domains I have >no set up anywhere else ever). no, they are not working like scubaont. Something else is going on. If you want scubaont mail to be handled by Imail 1) have Imail relay all mail for non-local-domain scubaont to an ip via mail relay routing in the Windows hosts file. 2) make scubaont an Imail local domain again with a nobody alias and then play with rules in the nobody mailbox. Len 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/ 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/
