Hi Les

At this point it probably becomes more of a documentation issue. With a
realitivly standard Windows network, mail delivery from openfiler won't
work unless an MX record is manually added to DNS. Possibly a note in
the Admin guide mentioning it would be worthwhile.

Thanks
Dave 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Les Mikesell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: Thursday, 17 August 2006 9:26 a.m.
> To: Dave Watkins
> Cc: Mukund; [email protected]
> Subject: RE: [OF-users] Email server configuration
> 
> On Thu, 2006-08-17 at 09:00 +1200, Dave Watkins wrote:
> > Hi Mukund
> > 
> > Thanks, although that would lead to some issues for anyone using 
> > multiple domain controllers in Active Directory that have their 
> > internal domain name set to the same as their external domain name.
> > 
> > What would happen in that case is that the openfiler box 
> would try to 
> > find an MX record for the domain in question, which (by default at
> > least) wouldn't exist as AD doesn't create any MX records. When it 
> > didn't find that it would use the A record, which in AD 
> round-robins 
> > between all the domain controllers. Obviously they won't all be 
> > running MTA's and so delivery would fail. Setting an MX record 
> > internally would get around this but that probably only 
> covers some of 
> > the possible fringe cases. Although in saying that I can't think of 
> > any others ;)
> 
> You should be able to point the openfiler box to a working 
> DNS server which will then make email work as designed.  Or 
> use the address of a server that you know will accept it.
> 
> --
>   Les Mikesell
>     [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> 
> 
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