Before I turn up the logging level to send to Ipswitch, has anyone
seen this before?  This is the second time this has happened.  It
appears that IMail does not honor the preference returned with MX
records but rather tries sending to the first one returned.  Here's
what happens...

I try to send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]  If I do an mx lookup on
domain.com and get the following returned:

domain.com      MX preference = 10, mail exchanger = smtp2.domain.com

domain.com      MX preference = 20, mail exchanger = smtp3.domain.com

domain.com      MX preference = 5, mail exchanger = smtp1.domain.com


smtp2.domain.com seems to be non-responsive.  But smtp3.domain.com and
smtp1.domain.com are live.  My messages get bounced back saying
delivery failed after 20 attempts.  The last time I had this problem I
turned up the logging level and found that IMail was trying to send to
smtp2.domain.com when it should be trying smtp1.domain.com since it is
the preferred server.  It looks like IMail is just using the first one
returned assuming that they will be returned in order of preference.

Does anyone know why this is happening or at least confirm that I'm
diagnosing this right?

Thanks.

--Todd.




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