[xmail] Xmail 1.22 retries on 'no existing domains' email addresses !

2006-03-03 Thread CLEMENT Francis
After the thread related to Xmail 1.22 retries on 'bad' email addresses ! (in fact syntax error on domain fqdn in recipent email address) we conducted a survey to our xmail servers to potential mail delay, mail lost, configuration problem, At this time, we discovered another 'strange' think

[xmail] Re: Xmail 1.22 retries on 'no existing domains' email addresses !

2006-03-03 Thread Rob Arends
Yes I agree, if there is a lookup failure it should fail immediately. Also if the DNS lookup is ok, and Xmail cannot connect to the IP address, it should fail immediately. Now I hear you say, no!!! This is the correct function. This is why the RFCs call for a secondary email server on a

[xmail] Re: Xmail 1.22 retries on 'no existing domains' email addresses !

2006-03-03 Thread Tracy
Rob Arends wrote: Yes I agree, if there is a lookup failure it should fail immediately. Also if the DNS lookup is ok, and Xmail cannot connect to the IP address, it should fail immediately. Now I hear you say, no!!! This is the correct function. This is why the RFCs call for a secondary

[xmail] glst.conf

2006-03-03 Thread Gideon So
Hi all, Can anyone of you provide a glst.conf including the ip address of yahoo.com.(hk), hotmail.com and gmail.com??? Thanks!! Gideon MigDal-Gad CrossNet Webmail Service We do the BEST for Christ http://www.mcnet.com.hk - To

[xmail] Re: Xmail 1.22 retries on 'no existing domains' email addresses !

2006-03-03 Thread Rob Arends
Yep, I agree, I stand corrected, I had not contemplated ISP wars or my own link going down. And the same goes for DNS. If a DNS server responds, then accept if there is no DNS resolution of the domain, then Perm-fail it, but if the DNS server does not respond, then tempfail it, because your own