OT?: Emailing from within filepro

[Bill Vermillion]

On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 09:08:36AM -0500, Tom Aldridge thus spoke:
> 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

May 26 19:41:52 bilver sm-mta[95665]: i4QNXAlt095661: to=<tla at aldridgeinc.com>, ctladdr=<fp at bilver.wjv.com> (1007/1007), delay=00:08:42, xdelay=00:08:17, mailer=esmtp, pri=64332, relay=gate.aldridgeinc.com., dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Name server: gate.aldridgeinc.com.: host name lookup failure
May 26 20:12:58 bilver sm-mta[1852]: i4QNXAlt095661: to=<tla at aldridgeinc.com>, ctladdr=<fp at bilver.wjv.com> (1007/1007), delay=00:39:48, xdelay=00:02:16, mailer=esmtp, pri=154332, relay=gate.aldridgeinc.com. [12.100.80.250], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Operation timed out with gate.aldridgeinc.com.

and it continued.

However it is seen today.

About 4 hours after the above entries in the maillogs you mail
server did respond.  For awhile I could not resolve
gate.aldrdigeinc.com and I could find no MX records for
the domain aldridgeinc.com

Depending on how I look for it I get differenig results.

Level 3 servers don't find it, Sprint does.

Whois gives ambigious listings showing two of aldridgeinc.com and
name server identified in whois as aldridgeinc.com [note that is
a domain name and NOT a fully qualfied name - eg host+ domain].

A lookup to the IP of aldrdigeinc.com - the nameserver
gives  250.muaa.mlwk.chcgil24.dsl.att.net at the name.

So that does not match the whois name.

It working now, but gives differening results depending on the
provider.  Is your name server really on a DSL line?

Bill
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Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com