On Fri, 23 Jul 2010, Dave Taylor wrote: > Hi, I'm using an old Xmail 1.21 on Windows server 2003, which has been rock > solid for years. > Recently I've started to see occasional DNS issues where xmail is attempting > to send to the A record IP rather than using the MX. > Looking in the Xmail MX cache folder, it has the correct MX servers for the > domain yet still sends to A record. > One particular domain that causes this issue regularly is kumon.co.uk. It > has 2 mx records (correct in the xmail MX cache) and an A record that points > to a different IP. Xmail connects to the A record, which appears to be > running a mail server for some other domain! > > Also, if i turn on the 'check mailer domain' occasionally I get incoming > mail rejected as 'your domain has not MX records', even though I can do a > manual mx lookup ok. > > I'm running my own Bind 8 DNS server on the same machine (for several years > also), I'm thinking there must be some connection or timeout problems > somewhere. > > Do you think updating to the latest XMail would improve this?
While I am not sure, there have been numerous changes/fixes to the DNS code from 1.21 to 1.27. I would definitely recommend upgrading to 1.27, besides the DNS issue. - Davide _______________________________________________ xmail mailing list xmail@xmailserver.org http://xmailserver.org/mailman/listinfo/xmail
