Re: Apache James : Purely MX record based smtp.

2021-06-30 Thread btell...@apache.org
Hello, If ou are using a gateway you should configure it directly mailetcontainer.xml RemoteDelivery mailet. Otherwize James would attempt to deliver all mails itself to remote domains. Eg:         outgoing     5000, 10, 23*50     25

Re: Apache James : Purely MX record based smtp.

2021-06-30 Thread Amlan Sengupta
Hello, To be honest I was not expecting it to need anything else besides a MX Record. The java exception on the other hand states the following : jvm 1 | 30-Jun-2021 10:20:30.654 ERROR [RemoteDelivery-2] org.apache.james.dnsservice.library.MXHostAddressIterator.:79 - Couldn't resolve IP

Re: Apache James : Purely MX record based smtp.

2021-06-30 Thread David Matthews
hi Amlan Why do you think any SMTP server needs anything other than an MX record? OK Some TXT records for dkim, spf and dmarc, but why an A record? I doubt that I properly understand your use case and since James itself does SMTP, I don't follow why you talk about connecting to an smtp

Apache James : Purely MX record based smtp.

2021-06-30 Thread Amlan Sengupta
Hello, I am a bit unclear based on Apache James 3.5.0 docs whether it is able to connect to smtp service provider purely based on MX Records. I have gone through the mailing list historically . I have set the gateway and gatewayPort to published MX Record. Logs say the following which seem to