I had deleted the MX records earlier because of the mail routing problem. If
I have MX records for filtered and unfiltered, it randomly sends the email
through which I thought was related to the priority.

Are you saying I should add MX records for these other two?

Mike
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sanford Whiteman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Mike Biddle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 7:51 PM
Subject: Re[2]: [IMail Forum] Email being routed through wrong IP address


> > So I need to get rid of the MX records for unfiltered.websiteworld.com?
>
> As   of   right  now,  you  don't  have  any  active  MX  records  for
> unfiltered.websiteworld.com.
>
> You have two redundant records for websiteworld.com:
>
>     websiteworld.com IN MX 10 mail.websiteworld.com
>
>     websiteworld.com IN MX 100 mail.websiteworld.com
>
> You only need one of these.
>
> For unfiltered, you have active only an A record:
>
>     unfiltered.websiteworld.com IN A 216.23.168.147
>
> So mail will end up going to the A record. Adding an actual MX instead
> for  unfiltered is a good idea. Either way, a smart spammer could well
> figure  out  that if the subdomain unfiltered.websiteworld.com exists,
> that  sounds  a  good  place to send spam, so you need to keep this as
> private   as   possible   (not  from  client  DNS  queries,  where  it
> realistically  has  to  be  published  to route mail, but in any other
> communication,  including ensuring that zone transfers are not allowed
> and not listing such addresses on the web).
>
> -Sandy
>
>
> ------------------------------------
> Sanford Whiteman, Chief Technologist
> Broadleaf Systems, a division of
> Cypress Integrated Systems, Inc.
> e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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