Ours hasn't never been able to send to the secondary/backup MX record either. I think this was brought up a few other times and might be within the archives.
~Rick ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ipswitch Listbox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 7:29 AM Subject: [IMail Forum] Second MX ignored in IMail 7.14 > Running IMail 7.14, my users complained about undelivered mails to one > specific domain. The checks showed that the domain has multiple MX entries > with different cost, e.g. > > maildomain.com. IN MX 10 mailserver.maildomain.com. > maildomain.com. IN MX 50 backupserver.provider.com. > > The first MX is unavailable (meanwhile, I know the reason). However, the > secondary MX is *not* used by IMail. Using Nslookup on the Imail server, the > entries are resolved properly. > > As a temporary workaround, I entered a line in the IMail server's HOSTS > file, pointing the name mailserver.maildomain.com to the IP of > backupserver.provider.com. > > Is this a known issue with IMail? Can anybody deliver successfully to the > 2nd MX? > I could find nothing within when I searched Ipswitch KB and Mailing List > Archives. > > Marius ___________________________________________________________________ Virus Scanned and Filtered by http://www.FamHost.com E-Mail System. 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/
