Delphi does seem messed up. Delphi.com and delphiauto.com resolve to the
same IP address. The reverse lookup  answers as delphiauto.com. If forward
and reverse lookups matched to delphi.com then IMail would have gotten the
MX records for delphi.com.
Gary

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Steven Copeland
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 11:20 AM
Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] MX connect fail


I'm not disputing that they are trying to send to delphi.com, but the mail
logs he posted plainly show that his mail server is trying to connect to
delphiauto.com which has no MX records.  This is not even the documented
problem with the 6.x versions of Imail connecting to the A record instead of
the MX, because delphiauto.com just doesn't have any mx records to connect
to.

 06:04 10:46 SMTP-(000000FD) Trying delphiauto.com (0)
06:04 10:47 SMTP-(000000FD) MX connect fail "164.109.59.132"
Even putting Host file entries in your Imail machine to delphi.com will not
correct this unless you forge an entry that pointed delphiauto.com to the
delphi.com mx servers.  Then you risk the chance that you are sending email
to the wrong server and then if there is no valid recipient, you will get it
bounced back or even worse, they have a user by the same name and through
some quirk, someone gets email that is not intended for them that might even
by proprietary in nature.  In my opinion, this is not something that should
be done or even considered.
Steven


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