Hi,

Thanks for your replies.

When using nslookup I get the same results as you:

> set q=mx
> hakuna.up.ac.za
Server:  johan.dissanet.com
Address:  160.124.112.134

Non-authoritative answer:
hakuna.up.ac.za MX preference = 0, mail exchanger = kendy.up.ac.za
hakuna.up.ac.za MX preference = 10, mail exchanger = postino.up.ac.za

up.ac.za        nameserver = inet.up.ac.za
up.ac.za        nameserver = rain.psg.com
up.ac.za        nameserver = hippo.ru.ac.za
up.ac.za        nameserver = padme.up.ac.za
up.ac.za        nameserver = erudite.up.ac.za
up.ac.za        nameserver = suntiger.ee.up.ac.za
kendy.up.ac.za  internet address = 137.215.101.101
postino.up.ac.za        internet address = 137.215.95.15
inet.up.ac.za   internet address = 137.215.101.16
padme.up.ac.za  internet address = 137.215.48.16
erudite.up.ac.za        internet address = 137.215.8.16
suntiger.ee.up.ac.za    internet address = 137.215.102.180

However, for some reason my server still logs this in james.1042982088671
[INFO   ] (James.Mailet): RemoteDelivery: Remote delivery thread (0) will
process mail Mail1042738757531-10-!997026024-to-hakuna.up.ac.za
1042982088671 [INFO   ] (James.Mailet): RemoteDelivery: attempting to
deliver Mail1042738757531-10-!997026024-to-hakuna.up.ac.za
1042982088687 [INFO   ] (James.Mailet): RemoteDelivery: attempting delivery
of Mail1042738757531-10-!997026024-to-hakuna.up.ac.za to host
hakuna.up.ac.za to [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
1042982111609 [INFO   ] (James.Mailet): RemoteDelivery: Exception delivering
message (Mail1042738757531-10-!997026024-to-hakuna.up.ac.za) - Could not
connect to SMTP host: hakuna.up.ac.za, port: 25;
  nested exception is:
        java.net.ConnectException: Connection timed out: connect
1042982111609 [INFO   ] (James.Mailet): RemoteDelivery: Temporary exception
delivering mail (Mail1042738757531-10-!997026024-to-hakuna.up.ac.za:
javax.mail.MessagingException: Could not connect to SMTP host:
hakuna.up.ac.za, port: 25;
  nested exception is:
        java.net.ConnectException: Connection timed out: connect
        at com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPTransport.openServer(SMTPTransport.java:867)
        at com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPTransport.protocolConnect(SMTPTransport.java:156)
        at javax.mail.Service.connect(Service.java:234)
        at javax.mail.Service.connect(Service.java:135)
        at javax.mail.Service.connect(Service.java:87)
        at com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPTransport.connect(SMTPTransport.java:93)
        at
org.apache.james.transport.mailets.RemoteDelivery.deliver(RemoteDelivery.jav
a:191)
        at
org.apache.james.transport.mailets.RemoteDelivery.run(RemoteDelivery.java:44
9)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:536)

1042982111609 [INFO   ] (James.Mailet): RemoteDelivery: Storing message
Mail1042738757531-10-!997026024-to-hakuna.up.ac.za into outgoing after 1
retriesmailet.log:

Could there be any specific setting in James that is causing this problem?

Regards,

Paul Bothma

-----Original Message-----
From: Noel J. Bergman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 17 January 2003 18:28
To: James Users List
Subject: RE: JAMES' honouring of MX records


> Noel, you have a typo there... it's "hakuna", not kakuna...

So I do ... and the odd thing is that I did a cut & paste to prevent just
such a problem ... weird ... I've no idea how I managed to do that.  :-)

In any event, sure enough, now I get:

> set q=mx
> hakuna.up.ac.za
Server:  gateway
Address:  192.168.1.1

hakuna.up.ac.za MX preference = 10, mail exchanger = postino.up.ac.za
hakuna.up.ac.za MX preference = 0, mail exchanger = kendy.up.ac.za

Testing that through my deployment of James, I get:

17/01/03 11:22:30 INFO  smtpserver: Successfully spooled mail from
[EMAIL PROTECTED] for [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

17/01/03 11:22:38 INFO  James.Mailet: RemoteDelivery: Mail
(Mail1042820550650-75967-to-hakuna.up.ac.za) sent successfully to
kendy.up.ac.za.

Indicating that the MX record was properly identified and honored.  The fact
that the local address isn't valid, so I got a bounce notice later, isn't
germaine.

        --- Noel


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