So I need to get rid of the MX records for unfiltered.websiteworld.com? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Evan Pearce" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 7:06 PM Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Email being routed through wrong IP address
> On 13/11/2003 at 10:26:19, Mike Biddle wrote: > > > When a create a new domain unfiltered.websiteworld.com on IP 216.23.168.147 > > other email started going through it that is not supposed to. > > > My email for [EMAIL PROTECTED] is supposed to go through > > mail.websiteworld.com 216.23.168.145 and does UNLESS I add the above, then > > it started going through unfiltered. See below > > [snip] > > > Any suggestions? I've checked DNS entries etc. > > websiteworld.com. 3600 IN MX 10 unfiltered.websiteworld.com. > websiteworld.com. 3600 IN MX 100 mail.websiteworld.com. > websiteworld.com. 3600 IN MX 10 mail.websiteworld.com. > websiteworld.com. 3600 IN MX 10 filtered.websiteworld.com. > > mail.websiteworld.com. 3600 IN A 216.23.168.145 > filtered.websiteworld.com. 3600 IN A 216.23.168.146 > unfiltered.websiteworld.com. 3600 IN A 216.23.168.147 > > mail, filtered and unfiltered are all listed as equal-preference MXs for > websiteworld.com. That means anyone sending to websiteworld.com will > pick one of those at random to try first - in this case it was > unfiltered. > > You should note that even if you do meddle with the priorities, spammers > often try not-best-preference MXs deliberately, in the (often correct) > assumption that backup servers have less rigorous spam protection. If > you don't want mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] going through > unfiltered.websiteworld.com, it shouldn't be listed as an MX at all. > > Cheers, > Evan > > > 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/
