Hi Chris, Yeah, I agree. And you've brought up an interesting point. I *could* run an internal DNS, or a hosts file (in each computer) to point the mail.company.com name to that IP number. Then, as you point out, we could use a real, routable server name as the pop server in CE.
The reason that I was having everybody use the ip number is that it worked, and also reduced the amount of unnecessary traffic through the router. We have a single 3k DSL line for the whole company, so reducing the unnecessary traffic is a helpful thing, especially when 40 computers are checking their email every 2-5 minutes. I have some DNS software that I've been wanting to learn, this sounds like a good time, doesn't it! ;-) Thanks for the idea. Best, Dave Nathanson Mac Medix in reply to ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), chris's message of 8:35 PM, 3/18/05 >>>From the outgoing headers of : >>x-sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>x-mailer: Claris Emailer 2.0v3 p3, January 22, 1998 >> >>The mail server is that .6 IP number, and also known as "64.164.81.106 " >>and it's obviously behind the same router we are. The error message we >>see in the mail server logs is: >> >>Failed to deliver to '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' >>SMTP module(domain davinci-selectwork.com) reports: >> host gate2.agencynet.de says: >> 553 5.1.8 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... >> Domain of sender address [EMAIL PROTECTED] does not exist > >I don't think it is actually the X-Sender line that is really at fault, >so much as the info contained in there, well, is invalid. 192.168.1.6 is >not a valid mail server address (in terms of spam protection). Not only >is it not an address that has an MX record that can be verified, but it >is also an non routable IP address. All around, it screams spammer. > >The best bet is to fix the problem at the client end that is inserting >that IP. I'm guessing your account is setup using IPs instead of DNS. If >you can't use DNS to access your mail server (internal network and no DNS >server), use the Hosts file in the Mac OS to fake it. That will let you >put a DNS entry into Emailer, and have it translated to the internal IP >behind the scenes (think of Hosts files as local DNS servers). > >-chris ><http://www.mythtech.net> > ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
