>I erred, though, in the router entry. I was using "domain.com = >mail.domain.com". Apparently, by specifying a host name as the >destination, SIMS does a lookup for MX records for that host >and, guess what, routes the mail back to the smtp.domain.com >host.
Naw, something must be messed in the DNS or in the netscape server setup. It does not do an MX lookup in that case, it just delivers to the host specified, modifying the envelope to deliver to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". Perhaps there's no route setup in the Netscape server to accept mail in the mail.domain.com domain as well as just domain.com, and it's relaying it's outbound mail through sims, which tries to deliver it again? Anyway I have used domain.com=mail.domain.com for various uses and it works just as advertised. No MX lookup. If you WANTED it to do an MX lookup, which actually would have also solved your problem (depending on your DNS setup), then you would use: domain.com=domain.com.smtp That .smtp suffix (which you can read about in the archives of this list), tells SIMS to do an MX lookup and handle it according to the RFC's, which would prevent a mail loop, and SIMS is smart enough to not deliver to itself, but rather the lowest priority MX that is online for the domain. However if the intended destination server has no MX, that won't do the trick for you. What I ended up with is: > >domain.com - IP.address > >in the router. That too works assuming the destination MTA is configured to accept mail with the IP in the envelope (which the Netscape server you're dealing with obviously does). So if it ain't broke... ;-) Craig Bowers ############################################################# This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Send administrative queries to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
