>Anyone having problems sending to msn.com?
Is anyone NOT having pb's? msn, hotmail, AOL, etc, they all have mail
difficulties from time to time.
If they can't fix their pb's, we sure can't. Don't sweat it.
>When I send to msn.com using
>Imail 6.03 (with SMTP patch) it does not go through. Upon further
>examination and research I have found the all the MX records for msn.com
>have the same priority (ugh!)
That's legal and, for them and their inbound traffic volumes, adivisable.
>I have successfully sent email to msn.com from two other ISP accounts that I
>maintain for testing purposes, so this seems to be an Imail problem in that
>Imail seems to only attempt a connection to the first MX it finds if they
>all have the same preference (granted, msn.com should not have the same
>preference for all MX records, but they do, and we know Microsoft is not
>very flexible in changing practices).
no, MX RR's with equal preference is perfectly ok, a technique for load
balancing.
Len
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