OT?: Emailing from within filepro

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In the relative spacial/temporal region of
Thu, May 27, 2004 at 09:08:36AM -0500, Tom Aldridge achieved the spontaneous
generation of the following:
> Bill Vermillion wrote:
> > I'm just using this as a followup to get a message to Tom.
> >
> > Mail to Tom's address fails as there is no IP assigned on the
> > gate.aldrdigeinc.com and there is no MX record for aldridgeinc.com
> >
> > So Tom, if you see this, you need to set your outgoing mail to have
> > a legitimate address to which the mail can be sent.   The ones in
> > your mail don't work.
> >
> > Bill
> 
> Bill-
> 
> I'm not understanding your problem here. Is it a typo or a problem with my
> mail server. The address is:
> 
> tla at aldridgeinc.com
> 
> The server is gate.aldridgeinc.com

I'm not actually understanding what Bill is getting at either.  I
understood what he was -saying-, but I don't understand where he got the
information he did (or lack thereof).  Witness:

[cobalt] [~] [9:36am]: nslookup
Default Server:  dns1.iglou.com
Address:  192.107.41.34

> set type=MX
> aldridgeinc.com
Server:  dns1.iglou.com
Address:  192.107.41.34

Non-authoritative answer:
aldridgeinc.com preference = 1, mail exchanger = gate.aldridgeinc.com

Authoritative answers can be found from:
aldridgeinc.com nameserver = gate.aldridgeinc.com
gate.aldridgeinc.com    internet address = 12.100.80.250
> set type=A
> gate.aldridgeinc.com
Server:  dns1.iglou.com
Address:  192.107.41.34

Non-authoritative answer:
Name:    gate.aldridgeinc.com
Address:  12.100.80.250

[cobalt] [~] [10:45am]: telnet 12.100.80.250 smtp
Trying 12.100.80.250...
Connected to 12.100.80.250.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 gate.aldridgeinc.com ESMTP

...It looks fine to me, Bill.

I don't think Tom has a problem there.  It seems to check out from my end.
Unless something was changed since he checked, I'm not sure what's up.

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