If IMAIL handles mail for the domain, everything works fine. The problem is, mail that relays to an outside server isn't working.
It sounds like your DNS server either isn't set up to allow recursive DNS lookups, or isn't allowing the IP of the IMail server to perform recursive DNS lookups. That would explain the problem, as it would return MX records that it has stored locally, but not ones stored on other DNS servers.
Mail is originating from IP 209.251.142.17 (where the DNS for this site resolved currently), and then tries to send out through the new DNS server (209.208.51.130).
If you have IMail and DNS on the same server, you'll want to change that to 127.0.0.1 (localhost). That way, you don't have to worry about any potential routing issues, which are common when trying to route E-mail from a server to itself.
We did this, trying 209.208.51.130, then 127.0.0.1, and neither work.
What happens when you do the following:
nslookup
server 127.0.0.1
set type=mx
hotmail.comDoes it give the MX records for Hotmail, or a "Refused" or similar response?
Any mail that doesn't relay to an outside server is sending/receiving mail correctly, it's just those that relay. Naturally, this includes our client with the largest mail volume.
Ah, so the problem is *incoming* E-mail to domains that IMail handles (relays), but does not store locally (and all outgoing E-mail and incoming E-mail to locally hosted domains is fine)? That is a different issue.
In this case, IMail does correctly go to the HOSTS file -- that is by design, and just how IMail works.
-Scott
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