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] > ------------------------------------ > > > 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/
