Sandy, You can call it anything you want, fool. IMail has never even CLAIMED to use MX priority until 7.1. Here's an exerpt from the 7.1 new features propoganda:
"Higher-Performing - SMTP will now cache positive DNS queries and IMail now uses MX record priority when delivering email." You can read it yourself at the bottom of http://www.ipswitch.com/Products/IMail_Server/whatsnew.html The sad thing is that the line is a lie. My production system has 5 main mail servers running Qmail. If I turn the highest priority machine OFF, and then try and send to an address on the Qmail servers from Imail the message will bounce back with that Undeliverable after XX attempts error message and never be delivered. It will not even try to send to the second highest priority MX. If I do the EXACT same thing from another Qmail box or Sendmail box the message is delivered within seconds (using the exact same DNS servers). Its that simple. Try it yourself. I don't keep logs on Imail or any other server... against our policy. Don't need any logs to prove this one guys, try it yourself and see for yourself. Before you say something is "nonsense" you should know what you're talking about. Never heard of this before? I've seen various formats of this exact same problem every month for YEARS on this very forum. Guess you don't read either. I had really hoped that Imail would become a decent mail server, but Ipswitch is more interested in adding features rather than fixing the basic product. R. Scott Perry, You claim: "In the years I've been using IMail, I've never heard any reports of it using the wrong MX priorities." How can that be. You've replied to this very problem many times and a few THIS MONTH. Here's one of your responses from July 15th: > > Is there any indication that the mail isn't going to the backup MX > > records? > >Yes, that's why I was asking. The message just gets re-qued, over and >over, till after the 20th attempt it bounces. "That is normal. IMail will re-queue the E-mail after it tries the primary MX record and the secondary are reached." and "That would suggest that IMail isn't going handling the situation properly"... Sounds strange to me that you say you've never heard of this problem when you've been aware of it for years. -Joe ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sanford Whiteman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Joe Wolf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, July 27, 2002 3:32 PM Subject: Re[2]: [IMail Forum] IMail not using MX record preference correctly? > > 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 > > Sorry, but that's nonsense. > > Show me some logs (from a packet analyzer, preferably) that show IMail > preferring A records to MX records when MX records are returned. Don't > you think a few (say, hundreds of thousands of) people might have > noticed this? > > As Scott said, *failback* to A records was implemented improperly in > several earlier versions, but there is no well-known issue with MX vs. > A record priority as you describe. > > -Sandy > > > 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/
