>This is where I start to get fuzzy. I can't understand why mail would ever >be addressed to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
you're correct, there's no GOOD reason. tons of bad reasons. > 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? nope. not with [EMAIL PROTECTED] as the mail address. mail.domain.com is one of the biggest fsckup's in Imail docs and practice. Before one could, as I advised, rid your entire IMail and dns of the mail.domain.com abomination, but since Imail 7.something, Ipswitch has hard-coded mail into their web cgi, or somewhere, or something. And mail.domain.com, apparently, has to the be mail host canonical name, with domain.com as the alias. arghhh. whew! The week almost expired without that rant! :)) Len ____________________________________________________________________ www.menandmice.com/DNS-training : DNS Training BIND8NT.MEIway.com: Secure config ; DNS and mail interactions IMGate.MEIway.com : Free, proven config for anti-mail-abuse gateways To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
