What you are describing is the 'design flaw' in IMS that has coused many of us to use smart hosts to deliver outbound messages, rather than letting IMS deliver outbound mail itself.
If any single message in a domain's queue is undeliverable (size etc.), IMS will not go on to the next message in queue, but rather will create the domain.mri file and deferr ALL deliveries for that domain. It will continue to try and deliver the problem message untill all 54? tries have failed, then it will delete the message and move on to the next one. So, many of us have set up a more intelligent MTA for delivering outbound messages, and then we configure IMS to use that MTA as a gateway. Thereby IMS delivers 100% of all outbound messages to the gateway, who takes responsibility for end delivery. I've been running in this configuration now for around 4-5 years. -Alan >I've suddenly developed problems sending e-mail to Yahoo. > >I've deleted the domain.MRI file from mail\domains\yahoo.com and restarted >all IMS services and the Yahoo mails just sit there. > >The new domain.mri file lists several MX-hosts. I've telneted to a couple >of them on port 25 from our mail server and they do answer but the session >doesn't go well. > >220 YSmtp mta244.mail.scd.yahoo.com ESMTP se >HELO mail.miec.com >250 mta244.mail.scd.yahoo.com >MAIL FROM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >501 Syntax error in parameters or arguments > > >I'm pretty sure that should work, so I don't think this is an IMS problem >but I was hoping one of you would have a clue or even could test a Yahoo >SMTP session for me from your mail server. > >Thanks, > >Don DeCosta > >This is the discussion list for the IMS Free email server software. > To unsubscribe send mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Delivered by Rockliffe MailSite > http://www.rockliffe.com/mailsite > Rock Solid Software (tm) This is the discussion list for the IMS Free email server software. To unsubscribe send mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered by Rockliffe MailSite http://www.rockliffe.com/mailsite Rock Solid Software (tm)
