>My suggested fix (putting the X1 in the second line of a multiline >reply) would take care of that.
oh, that really sucks :)) 1. WHY not just enter the ip's into each peer of all the peers? no need to play silly games parsing out the banner. 2. But here's the High Tek solution: a. in DNS, create a domain name. peer.peereddomain.com. b. create MX records for it: peer.peereddomain.com. MX 10 peer1.peereddomain.com. peer.peereddomain.com. MX 10 peer2.peereddomain.com. peer.peereddomain.com. MX 10 peer3.peereddomain.com. peer.peereddomain.com. MX 10 peer4.peereddomain.com. c. when peerx is defined in imail as a peer member, AND it receives a msg for a peereddomain.com account that is not local to itself, then it queries DNS for the MX records of peer.peereddomain.com d. it eliminates itself from the set of MX records and then tries to deliver to all the other peerx's. This has the huge advantage of re-using all of the code already in Imail for implementing the RFC MX algorithm. It would also allow for new peers to be added, and for their ip's to be changed, without bothering any of the other peers. 3. Objection to 2. "Len, what about all those IMail admins who can't even spell DNS, never mind admin it?" Objection overruled: do exactly the same as 2. but DO IT in hosts file. ip.ad.re.ss peer1.peereddomain.com. ip.ad.re.ss peer2.peereddomain.com. ip.ad.re.ss peer3.peereddomain.com. ip.ad.re.ss peer4.peereddomain.com. but that has all the drawbacks of hosts file, which were solved when DNS was designed. The REAL WEAKNESS of Imail peering (and webmail) is not the X1-in-a-bad-spot monkey business, it's that Imail doesn't support true assymmetric peering/clustering of SMTP/POP/WEBMAIL services. ie, front-end protocol smtp/pop/imap/http servers with backend mailbox+auth servers. Len http://MenAndMice.com/DNS-training http://BIND8NT.MEIway.com : ISC BIND for NT4 & W2K http://IMGate.MEIway.com : Build free, hi-perf, anti-abuse mail gateways Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
