Okay, lets say I want to do the latter. I have mail.abc.com set up to handle incoming and outgoing email for my customers.
I set up another imail server (box) also with the official hostname of mail.abc.com and a domain of mail.abc.com with the appropriate IP address. I want to use this 2nd server strictly for sending large volumes of outbound email and never want it to ever see incoming email. Note...I am not spamming! I have users that use a web application which sends them email they requested. I just want to move that outbound email load to a separate physical server. It should EHLO with mail.abc.com which has a valid MX record. What if anything would I need to do to the SMTP banner? ----------------------------- If your outgoing mail is MAIL FROM: @mail2.abc.com, then yes, you must have an MX record for mail2.abc.com to avoid rejection by anti-spam measures. But if you're sending the MAIL FROM: @mail.abc.com, you already have an MX record, and no questions should be asked. In either case, you should have the A, HELO, PTR, and SMTP banner as tidy as possible for your new outbound relay host. See archives for best practices if you need to. -Sandy __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Exclusive Video Premiere - Britney Spears http://launch.yahoo.com/promos/britneyspears/ 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/
