Thanks for your response. I have seen your responses before and am impressed at your knowledge in this area. Let me be more specific. I have used SIMS for years with no problem. My domain is spellnetwork.com and I have an MX and A record for mail.spellnetwork.com in my own registered DNS machines and the own domain of SIMS is mail.spellnetwork.com with a router entry spellnetwork.com = mail.spellnetwork.com. I assume this is proper but it has worked for years.
The problem was - I needed an account using IMAP and since SIMS doesn't provide that - I decided to set up an IMAP account using OSXS 10.2.2 (AMS). This account is [EMAIL PROTECTED] so I setup AMS as mail2.spellnetwork.com - gave it an MX record and A record. All other accounts are POP and are located on SIMS. When mail is sent to the spellnetwork.com domain it doesn't know which server to go to and bounces with account not found on this server or some other such error. I took out the DNS entry for mail2 and everything started working properly again.
While it was misconfigured, it sent this error to a mailing list:
Recipient: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reason: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Recipient Rejected! SMTP server has
delivery restrictions in place. CRAM-MD5 authentication is required.
The problem with this is that lcs is an account on SIMS NOT on AMS. Do you have any ideas?
Thanks
On Wednesday, December 4, 2002, at 06:55 PM, Bill Cole wrote:
What exactly do you mean by 'primary' mailserver? If you are seeking a way to have mail delivered to mailboxes on 2 different machines, you have a logical problem: there's no standard way to force that > behavior.
One important thing to understand about SIMS is that it has a domain name that is special, set in the general settings. it WILL NOT look to DNS for its own identity. Usually that name should be a fully qualified domain name with an A record that points to an IP address by which the outside world can get to that SIMS machine. That name should also be what you use in an MX record. If your SIMS machine is in fact mail.domain.com (both by DNS and by the SIMS setting) and you have that router entry, then all [EMAIL PROTECTED] addresses should deliver to local mailboxes.
I hope that provides some basis to help you figure out your problem. I'm not clear on exactly where you want mail to go and how you hope to get it there, or just what trouble you are having on which machine, so it's hard to be any more specific...
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