OT?: Emailing from within filepro

[Kenneth Brody]

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.

According to my system, there is a valid MX record:

> Recursive queries supported by this server
>  Query for aldridgeinc.com type=255 class=1
>   aldridgeinc.com MX (Mail Exchanger) Priority: 1 gate.aldridgeinc.com
>   aldridgeinc.com SOA (Zone of Authority)
>         Primary NS: gate.aldridgeinc.com
>         Responsible person: sid at aldridgeinc@com
>         serial:200381703
>         refresh:20s 
>         retry:20s 
>         expire:20s 
>         minimum-ttl:20s 
>   aldridgeinc.com NS (Nameserver) gate.aldridgeinc.com
>   gate.aldridgeinc.com A (Address) 12.100.80.250

A telnet to gate.aldridgeinc.com's SMTP port answers as expected.

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