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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jason W. Allen
Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 12:27 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Simple DNS problems - set me straight!

Scott,

At least I'm not going crazy and missing something.  If this is a bug, was
there ever a patch for it?  I don't want to spend the money to go to 8.x and
I don't have a service contact so I can't upgrade it.

--Jason W. All

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of R. Scott Perry
Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 12:20 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Simple DNS problems - set me straight!


 >> My question is, if this server knows the MX records of hotmail, why is
Imail
 >> trying to send the message to 64.4.33.7??At 11:48 AM 9/19/2003, Jason
W. Allen wrote:

>I'm having the same problem.  Only it's not only with Hotmail.

Here's the deal.

A mailserver *should* use the A record for a domain, but *only* if the MX
record doesn't exist.  Since Hotmail and almost all other domains have MX
records, the A record should never be used with Hotmail, and rarely ever be
used with other domains.

However, there was a bug in many versions of IMail (pre-8.0, AFAIK), where
it would use the A record if the MX record existed but it could not contact
any (some?) of the hosts in the MX record.  This behavior is incorrect, and
was fixed somewhere around v8, and affects versions as early as v6 and
quite possibly older versions as well.

                                                    -Scott
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