Re: [IMail Forum] Sending Through Gateway Host

[Tripp Allen]

Any attempt to send the mail is a try.  If it connects and fails, that is counted as a try.   I run my home server off a IP which has the same problems; some servers will not allow it to connect since its a residential IP.  I set the number of tries before gateway to one.  This way, it will try to send it once and if it fails will hand it off to the gateway.    Tripp   ----- Original Message ----- From: Jeffery Rehm To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 6:36 PM Subject: [IMail Forum] Sending Through Gateway Host Just curious about something when setting the number of try's before sending through a gateway host...   What exactly is a try?  Is it when IMail cannot contact the receiving mail server at all (DNS timeout, receiving server down, etc.)?   Reason I ask is that at home I have a cable connection with dynamic IP.  Some providers such as Earthlink will not accept email for their users if it originates from a server on a dynamically assigned circuit.  I also have had problems with AOL and Compuserve users.  Earthlink bounces the message with an explanation that they don't accept mail from servers with dynamic IP addresses.  AOL and Compuserve are not so informative.  They generally bounce the message simply saying the recipient is invalid.   So if my thinking is correct, IMail doesn't see the Earthlink/AOL/Compuserve bounce as a failed 'try', but rather thinks the message went through because it did connect and send the message to something.  Am I thinking clearly here?   Obviously, I just set it to always send through the gateway host to get around this, but just wondering about the mechanics of IMail.