Hi Paul,
Thanks for making the case for this. I have made changes to
http://support.ipswitch.com/kb/IM-19981110-DD02.htm
(They may not appear (publish) till tomorrow.)
Dave
In reply to 4 Feb message from [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
>Dan,
>Thanks for your note on this. After mailing my note to the
>group, I looked at this longer and finally figured out how I
>had solved the problem in the first place.
>My problem was that I have 2 NIC's. One external; one
>internal. When I installed iMail, it hooked up my first
>domain to the internal NIC with an IP address of 192.168.0.1.
>So whenever external mail was delivered, it was going through
>the internal NIC. Obviously it was going to get an "MX
>Connect Fail" error - the internal NIC can't connect to an
>external IP address. It has nothing to do with a DNS
>problem.
>To correct the problem, I just went into the registry and
>changed the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Ipswitch\IMail\Domains key by
changing any
>references to the internal NIC IP address to the IP address
>on the external NIC. That took care of the problem
>immediately.
>I had looked at the knowledge base article on "BindToIP" and
>had changed the value as suggested to 0. That didn't take
>care of the problem for me. I had to make the adjustment to
>the registry to get things working.
>You might want to think about including this information in
>the knowledge base. It might solve the problem for folks who
>run into the same difficulty. Every time I've seen this
>problem come up on the mail list, the answer that is always
>given is that the person's DNS is messed up. If the person
>has multiple IP addresses on one or more NIC's it is just as
>likely (moreso I would guess) that the problem is simply that
>iMail is trying to send out mail via an internal NIC.
>Best regards,
>Paul Sinclair
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Daniel
Donnelly
>> Sent: Friday, February 04, 2000 9:36 AM
>> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] MX Connect Fail: I know my problem, how do
I
>> fix it?
>>
>>
>> Paul,
>>
>> Best if the first NIC that is installed is the external address
>> (Also check
>> HOSTS file for correct IPs and names). If not, then check the
>> KnowledgeBase
>> (or V5.03 or later Release Notes) and look for 'bindtoip' a registry
entry
>> that changes how IMail uses the IPs.
>>
>> Daniel Donnelly
>> Ipswitch Technical Support
>> ________________________________________________________
>> See our Knowledge Base at http://support.ipswitch.com/kb
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Paul Sinclair" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2000 6:54 PM
>> Subject: [IMail Forum] MX Connect Fail: I know my problem, how do
>> I fix it?
>>
>>
>> > I'm moving to Win2000 and taking iMail V5 with me. I've got it
installed
>> and
>> > have worked out a couple bugs. Now I'm having problems sending
external
>> > mail. I'm getting the "MX Connect Fail" error message.
>> >
>> > I had this problem when I first installed iMail under NT 4.0. I
finally
>> > determined that the problem relates to the fact that I have 2
>> NIC's in the
>> > machine. One is on an internal network only; the other is
>> external. Imail
>> > was trying to send external mail via the internal IP NIC. I fixed
it so
>> that
>> > iMail was sending external mail on the external NIC and it has been
>> working
>> > fine for well over a year now.
>> >
>> > Now I'm getting the same trouble when trying to install in
>> Win2000. But I
>> > can't remember how I fixed it the first time around! Can
>> someone remind me
>> > what I need to do make sure iMail is sending external mail on
>> the external
>> > NIC?
>> >
>> > Thanks.
>> >
>> > Paul Sinclair
>> >
>> >
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>> >
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