>This is where I start to get fuzzy. I can't understand why mail would ever
>be addressed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] i.e. - sender types [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>in his browser, delivers mail to his ISPs SMTP server, that server looks up
>MX, finds mail.domain.com at 1.1.1.1, connects to 1.1.1.1 tries to deliver
>mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Correct? So mail should never be addressed to
>[EMAIL PROTECTED], should it?
For some odd reason, years ago, a handful of ISPs had their customers use
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]", rather than "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". I can't say why
-- perhaps they thought it was cooler that way, kind of like using
"www.example.com" instead of "example.com".
Then, there are tons of domains where "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" is the correct
format, but "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" works. Since it does, for legacy
purposes, it's important to keep the @mail.example.com (just in case anyone
uses it, even though it is never advertised).
You might want to try typing:
find "@mail.example.com" sys*.txt
from a command prompt, in your \IMail\spool directory. That will show you
if any E-mail has been addressed to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]".
If you know that no mail has or will be addressed to [EMAIL PROTECTED],
then you don't need to have a HOSTS file entry for it.
-Scott
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