I am trying to understand when the second MX record is used. Today, I had to take a production server down and ship to to another location. (not a XMail server, just a garden variety RedHat server running the usual mail/www stuff)
I had ensured that there was a higher priority MX record for the domain handled by that server. Various ISP's dns servers all report the secondary MX, so the dns config looks good. I also tested that the secondary MX server would accept mail for the domain. It did and it relayed to to the primary server. So the sever is now on a truck somewhere, and I decided to send a test email to verify that mail would be held at the secondary MX. This is where XMail comes in. My server is an Xmail server, and I can see the outbound mail in the spool, with it's slog showing that the mail is trying to connect to the primary MX, which of course is returning error 232. I tried clearing the Xmail dnscache (also I am using SmartDNSHost pointing to my self - W2k SP3) and also restarted Xmail, but no luck. The message still sits there looking for the primary MX. So when will XMail try the secondary MX? Rob:-) _________________________________________________ Note To Self: Remember to put something witty here later... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
