>I'm having a problem with IMail not getting updated DNS entries.
<G>
>I have a particular domain I am trying to send to and I keep getting
>this error:
>
>02:27 17:31 SMTP-(000000F6) Trying cciaonline.com (0)
>02:27 17:31 SMTP-(000000F6) Connect cciaonline.com [216.34.185.81:25]
>(2)
>02:27 17:31 SMTP-(000000F6)
>02:27 17:31 SMTP-(000000F6) SMTP_DELIV_FAILED
>02:27 17:31 SMTP-(000000F6) >QUIT
>02:27 17:31 SMTP-(000000F6)
>
>If you pull and NSLOOKUP for the MX record of cciaonline.com you will
>get:
>
>cciaonline.com MX preference = 5, mail exchanger = 66.9.103.242
There's your problem. cciaonline is broken; the MX record says to contact
a host named "66.9.103.242", but there is no such host with that name (it
looks a lot like an IP address, but IPs aren't allowed in MX records).
My analogy is that an IP address in an MX record is like writing someone's
phone number on an envelope and mailing it. Sure, you and I and the post
office know exactly what the number is, but your letter won't get to its
destination unless someone goes out of their way to fix the problem.
-Scott
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