Thanks to all of you for responding to my questions. In answer to some of yours, I have the following:
No, I did not reboot. The Hosts file is available at any time and any changes to it are available immediately. I did run a test by added a bogus entry and the IMail server could ping the address properly. I'm not attempting to do a S&F setup. I'm just trying to enable messages to flow between the 4 mail servers behind our firewall. The issue with resolving the Exchange IP address is that IMail picks up the address from DNS (also behind the firewall) and that resolves to an external IP address. I now have it working (sort of) by letting IMail attempt to deliver the message 3 times before it sends to the SmartHost, our FE Exchange Server (Remote Mail Gateway Host on the SMTP tab of the SMTP service). Since communication between the Exchange Server and the SLMail server already works, this workaround works as well. I just thought that IPSwitch's documented use of Hosts then DNS should allow the server access to internal IPs of domains that exist on Exchange and SLMail. I am using the eval version and not the lite version. I have the real thing on order and should get it in this week. Once I install it, we see if this situation changes. Thanks again for all the great responses. Kathy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Landry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, August 18, 2003 12:06 PM Subject: Re: Re[2]: [IMail Forum] DNS Used Rather Than Hosts for Local Mail Servers > Wrong, you are thinking of lmhosts. The hosts file gets read every time a > query gets made. > > Bill > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Bruce Barnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, August 18, 2003 3:29 AM > Subject: RE: Re[2]: [IMail Forum] DNS Used Rather Than Hosts for Local Mail > Servers > > > > Did you REBOOT after modifying the HOSTS file? The hosts file is only > read > > by the operating system at the time of the system boot. If you are > running > > a Windows based operating system, changes made without rebooting a machine > > will not be known by the OS until the machine is rebooted. > > > > Bruce Barnes > > ChicagoNetTech > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Sunday, August 17, 2003 18:44 > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: Re[2]: [IMail Forum] DNS Used Rather Than Hosts for Local > > Mail Servers > > > > > > The Hosts file is in the correct folder (c:\Windows\System32\Drivers\Etc) > > and the SMTP service is using the Local System Account. When I check the > > SMTP log, the IMail server looks like it will read the first domain (after > > localhost) and properly use the private IP for delivery. > > > > If I send a message to the second domain in the Host file list (after > > localhost), the send fails and the message is delivered via the gateway. > > > > All I can say is "Weird...." > > > > Also, I thought maybe there was an update so I downloaded and tried to > > install the 8.02 version. I'm using the Eval 8.01 but the patch would not > > install. > > > > Kathy > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Sanford Whiteman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Sunday, August 17, 2003 7:13 PM > > Subject: Re[2]: [IMail Forum] DNS Used Rather Than Hosts for Local Mail > > Servers > > > > > > > > ...curious to know why IMail keeps using DNS before Hosts. > > > > > > Is it, in fact, using HOSTS at all? If you add a static mailroute to > > > HOSTS for a domain which does not exist via DNS, does IMail then > > > attempt to route using the HOSTS entry? > > > > > > If not, then your HOSTS file may be located in the wrong directory, or > > > the impersonated service user may not have rights to the file for an > > > odd reason. > > > > > > -Sandy > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > > Sanford Whiteman, Chief Technologist > > > Broadleaf Systems, a division of > > > Cypress Integrated Systems, Inc. > > > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > ------------------------------------ > > > > > > > > > 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/ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > 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/ > > > > > > > > > > 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/ > > > > > 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/ > > 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/
