[xmail] Re: 1.25-pre06 ...
Heheh.. try [EMAIL PROTECTED] The A record points to 192.168.0.51 and there is no MX... Ivo - Original Message - From: "Davide Libenzi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, April 20, 2007 4:05 AM Subject: [xmail] Re: 1.25-pre06 ... > On Thu, 19 Apr 2007, Tom Banting wrote: > >> How can you get an A record if the name servers are off line? What am I >> missing? The only A records you have are for the off line name servers. > > Doesn't matter. I can see the attempt to deliver to the A-record from the > logs. That's enough for me. > > > > - Davide > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[xmail] Re: 1.25-pre06 ...
On Thu, 19 Apr 2007, Tom Banting wrote: > How can you get an A record if the name servers are off line? What am I > missing? The only A records you have are for the off line name servers. Doesn't matter. I can see the attempt to deliver to the A-record from the logs. That's enough for me. - Davide - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[xmail] Re: 1.25-pre06 ...
How can you get an A record if the name servers are off line? What am I missing? The only A records you have are for the off line name servers. At 02:21 PM 19/04/2007, you wrote: On Thu, 19 Apr 2007, Rob Arends wrote: >Davide, I have some domains I can play with if you like to do what you want. > >What specific 'errors' do you want to create. The last test I have to run, requires having a registered domain whose NS servers are out-of-reach. This to test that XMail will not try A-record delivery in that case. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[xmail] Re: 1.25-pre06 ...
On Thu, 19 Apr 2007, Rob Arends wrote: > Davide, I have some domains I can play with if you like to do what you want. > > What specific 'errors' do you want to create. The last test I have to run, requires having a registered domain whose NS servers are out-of-reach. This to test that XMail will not try A-record delivery in that case. - Davide - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[xmail] Re: 1.25-pre06 ...
Davide, I have some domains I can play with if you like to do what you want. What specific 'errors' do you want to create. Rob :-) _ Note To Self: Remember to put something witty here later... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Davide Libenzi Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2007 1:26 PM To: XMail mailing list Subject: [xmail] Re: 1.25-pre06 ... On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, Davide Libenzi wrote: > On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, John Kielkopf wrote: > > > > > > so it is easier > > > that temporary network problems end up being hidden by its caching. > > > > > > > > > > > > - Davide > > > > > > > > But why should a temporary network problem cause any issue in the first > > place, unless that problem is a bad DNS entry? Network connectivity > > issues during a DNS query should at most cause a delay in sending the > > mail, but the mail should eventually get through without user intervention. > > > > I'm still concerned that your fall back to "A" after MX timeout could > > cause a permanent delivery failure (trying to send to the host pointed > > to by the "A" record, potentially hitting an SMTP server that would > > refuse the delivery) when the failure should only be temporary (can't > > get any results from the domain's DNS servers due to a network failure > > somewhere while trying to lookup the MX record). Admittedly, this would > > be a _very_ small window of opportunity, but still possible if Xmail > > handles this as you suggest. > > That can be done. Anyone has a domain name with no MX handy, for me to > test? Never mind, found it (example.com :) Now I see XMail going to A-record when sending to example.com, that is right. Now I need to test the other part, that is a temporary remote DNS error ... - Davide - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
