I've been using IMail on a limited basis since the 4.0 versions. I now run 7.11. No version I have ever had, including 7.11 uses the MX priority correctly. For some strange reason IMail looks for A records first which is a dumb way to do it.
That is one of the reasons we could never use IMail as a production server. -Joe ----- Original Message ----- From: "Todd Ryan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, July 27, 2002 7:25 AM Subject: [IMail Forum] IMail not using MX record preference correctly? > 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. > > > > > 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/ > 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/
