Sorry for the confusion. The situation is I have two different hosts that are responsible for the domain.com. Both are on public IP's but when I attempt to send from one server for delivery to an address on the other both fail. Sounds like I need something in the wins hosts file to detail their existence to each other. Any further insight that could be gleaned is appreciated!
Thanks, Chris. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Sanford Whiteman Sent: Friday, August 09, 2002 6:16 PM To: Chris Martin Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Exchange 5.5 and Imail sharing a domain > I'm wondering if anyone has any good resources for learning how to > run Exchange 5.5 and Imail on the same domain. > Fac/staff = Exchange.domain.com > Students = imail.domain.com Those aren't the same domain, but I'm guessing those are actually different hosts delivering for domain.com and you used a sort of misleading shorthand. > I have DNS records for both exchange at priority 5 and imail at 10 > but I can't seem to get both boxes to talk to each other. Why would they talk to each other? You seem to be a little off in your understanding of SMTP and MX records. If an MTA knows a domain to be local--that is, it performs local delivery to mailboxes or drop directories for that domain--it has no cause whatsoever to perform an MX lookup for the domain, unless it is specifically told that the domain has been "horizontally partitioned" across multiple physical servers. There is no RFC for this partitioning, not every MTA supports it, and those that do all perform it in different proprietary ways. IMail does it using the peering feature...but before I go on with telling you about it, look at my interpretation of your envt and RTM and let us know if I'm not barking up the wrong tree (Len, for instance, was thinking you meant something very different). -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/
