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From: Max Paperno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: inFusion Support List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, June 25, 2000 4:25 PM
Subject: [iMS] It works! & 2 POST questions
Well, I put my new iMS server into production early this morning, and it
works! Yes, of course I expected it to, but it's still cool :-) No more
open spam relay with NTMail! woohoo!
Anyway, pardon my excitement...
What's the point of the BadMes folder? I see delivery failures in POST log
with null returns (from a list, so as it should be), and I expect the bad
messages to appear in the BadMes folder (ala NTMail's BadMes folder). But
they just disappear. Can I enable them to be saved in BadMes somehow?
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The BadMes folder is for storing the raw mail message if there is a problem
with the control file.
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Also I see MX lookups failing occasionally. I have 3 DNS servers defined in
the POST config. 2 of them are on the same LAN, and another is just a few
hops away. All 3 are fast. I did notice at least 2 permanent MX lookup
failures in the logs today-- one to ptwi.com and one to bolt.com. These
domains DO have MX records. However, iMS apparently gave up looking for a
MX, and deleted the outgoing mail file, after claiming a timeout from all
DNS servers. I have the MX resolve timeout set to 60 seconds (at 30 seconds
I was getting a lot of timeouts). Now, I didn't get a chance to check these
MX's until a few hours after the failures, so perhaps both DNS servers for
those domains were down at the time... but that doesn't seem likely.
Actually I see several failures of this type, but then there are some
successes also, for the same domains (eg. bolt.com). Anyone else notice
this? What could be happening? This is especially disturbing considering
what I said above-- that the bad email just gets deleted. I should say that
I had no MX resolution problems with my previous mail system, using the same
DNS servers.
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The MX Lookups are done via UDP. I'll look into have an option to use TCP
instead. For now you should make sure that you have MX caching enabled
which is better that using lookups continually to the DNS servers.
Regards,
Howie
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Thanks!
-Max
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