Re: Problems e-mailing domains with multiple MX records

From: John Carlson (johnc_at_nova1.net)
Date: 03/09/05 

Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 12:54:05 -0600

It is not my domain but what is the serious problem? The one warning that I
see is for the multiple MX records, but even this page says that it is a
technically valid configuration. I also do not think that this would cause
the problem that I (and apparently others) am experiencing.

"Marina Roos [SBS-MVP]" <marina@roos.nodontwantspam.nl.com> wrote in message
news:OZaMKfNJFHA.4012@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> Hi John,
>
> Check this out:
> DNS Report:
> http://www.dnsreport.com/tools/dnsreport.ch?domain=hunton.com
>
> Major problem with that domain. If it is your domain, contact your ISP.
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Marina
> Microsoft SBS-MVP
> One of the Magical M&M's
>
> "John Carlson" <johnc@nova1.net> schreef in bericht
> news:2dqdnUe7CddItLLfRVn-og@novaone.net...
>> I have a client who is running a fully patched SBS 2003 box and we are
>> having trouble e-mailing a client who ahs multiple MX records.
>>
>> It would appear that the exchange server tries the first MX record and
> never
>> tries any of the others when it fails. Ultimately I receive the following
>> message returned to me:
>>
>> _____________________________________________
>> From: System Administrator
>> Sent: Saturday, March 05, 2005 4:06 PM
>> To: kingt@hunton.com
>> Subject: Undeliverable:FW: Update re: Email Sending and Receiving Issues
>>
>> Your message did not reach some or all of the intended recipients.
>>
>> Subject: FW: Update re: Email Sending and Receiving Issues
>>
>> Sent: 3/3/2005 3:55 PM
>>
>> The following recipient(s) could not be reached:
>>
>> kingt@hunton.com on 3/5/2005 4:06 PM
>>
>> Could not deliver the message in the time limit specified.
>> Please retry or contact your administrator.
>>
>> <aldusequity.com #4.4.7>
>>
>>
>>
>> I have used telnet from my server to verify that I cannot connect to the
>> first MX record in the list but can connect to all of the others. This
>> problem appears to be documented and repaired with the Windows 2003
> default
>> SMTP service but I could not find any mention of it on SBS. Does anyone
> have
>> any more information regarding this? You help will be greatly
> appreaciated.
>>
>>
>>
>
>

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