RE: [IMail Forum] Delivery to A record when MX fails

2001-06-11 Thread Rod Dorman
R. Scott Perry wrote: Is there any reason why Imail will try to deliver to the A record of a domain if it fails to connect to the MX record? Can you disable it? The RFC requires that IMail do that. I don't believe it can be disabled. Are you sure about this? My reading is that using 'A'

[IMail Forum] Delivery to A record when MX fails

2001-06-08 Thread Korey Verlsteffen
Is there any reason why Imail will try to deliver to the A record of a domain if it fails to connect to the MX record? Can you disable it? Here is the situation. You send an email from your email account [EMAIL PROTECTED] to say [EMAIL PROTECTED] Imail receives the email and starts processing

RE: [IMail Forum] Delivery to A record when MX fails

2001-06-08 Thread Ron Hornbaker
Is there any reason why Imail will try to deliver to the A record of a domain if it fails to connect to the MX record? Can you disable it? snip We've noticed the same thing, and it's quite annoying. If IMail cannot contact the MX machine, it should never ever deliver to an A record. I think

Re: [IMail Forum] Delivery to A record when MX fails

2001-06-08 Thread R. Scott Perry
Is there any reason why Imail will try to deliver to the A record of a domain if it fails to connect to the MX record? Can you disable it? The RFC requires that IMail do that. I don't believe it can be disabled. For some reason at this time Imail cannot connect to the MX ip for joe.com so it