Sandy, First, thanks for the help! Okay, so it sounds like I have everything set up correctly. The last config changes I made are exactly what you described. Except you're saying I can remove the MX record for mail2.abc.com. I'll give that a try right now. One last question, will any email servers reject email from my send-only server because it doesn't have an MX record? I think declude complains about servers that don't have an MX record.
======================= > I set up another imail server (box) also with the official hostname > of mail.abc.com and a domain of mail.abc.com... You should not set up two physical hosts that claim to have the same canonical hostname if it is both (a) avoidable and (b) not even suggested at the logical level (i.e. you aren't doing any round-robin DNS in your scenario). > I want to use this 2nd server strictly for sending large volumes of > outbound email and never want it to ever see incoming email. Then you set it up with a different hostname (outonly.abc.com), which will also be its HELO and SMTP banner. Set up a PTR for the IP that also points to outonly.abc.com. Set up an A for outonly.abc.com that circles back to the IP. At no time are you inviting, nor are you obliged to invite, incoming mail to your outbound relay. There is no reason for it to appear in any MX records. Continue to send MAIL FROM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is far, far easier than you think. > Note...I am not spamming! Yep, got that. :) -Sandy __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Exclusive Video Premiere - Britney Spears http://launch.yahoo.com/promos/britneyspears/ 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/
