no all the mail go bounced back to the senders... I off on a site visit
today to check the install and registry.
Thanks
-Kevin
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Len Conrad
> Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2000 5:03 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Imail sending mail to the A record insteadof
> the MX record
>
>
>
> >I this problem that Imail appears to be sending mail directly to the DNS
> >A record as opposed to the MX records. Below are three snips of the log
> >showing the stack connect fails to the A record, and no reference of the
> >MX record
> >being tried.
>
> SMTP clients will attempt to deliver mail to a domain's A record,
> if MX is
> not found, or maybe if none of the MX records are reachable. MX was
> invented to allow separation of the SMTP server host at the MX record ip
> from the domain host at the A record ip.
>
> "dig netzero.net mx" returns 3 "MX 10" records but none of them
> have the ip
> address 209.247.162.59.
>
> "dig -x 209.247.162.59" returns a PTR record pointing to www.netzero.net.
>
> Don't know why your Imail was futzing around with .59. Hard to
> say. We're
> pretty sure Imail's smtp client knows how to do DNS lookups, vbg,
> so I bet
> it got handed some bad poop by a bad cache somewhere.
>
> Same dig story with cbn.net.id.
>
> btw, did the mail ever get delivere?
>
> Len
>
> ================
>
>
> >I did lookups on the domains and they showed valid MX records
> that I could
> >connect to via telnet, but still Imail was sending to the
> address listed in
> >the A record.
>
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