Todd Ryan wrote: > 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.
Todd, That appears right to me. Could you post the actual 'log' of the transaction? I'm suspecting that it isn't IMail but rather the domain.com might not have its' DNS set correctly. Were you able to duplicate this with another site? ~Rick ___________________________________________________________________ Virus Scanned and Filtered by http://www.FamHost.com E-Mail System. 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/
