OT?: Emailing from within filepro

[Bill Vermillion]

On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 11:04:42AM -0400, Kenneth Brody 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.

> 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.

I just replied to this in private email as I got a copy there and
did not realize it went to the list also.

To recap that one:



; <<>> DiG 8.3 <<>> aldridgeinc.com 
;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
;; got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 14642
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUERY SECTION:
;;	aldridgeinc.com, type = A, class = IN

;; ANSWER SECTION:
aldridgeinc.com.	1d7h2m16s IN A	12.100.80.250

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
aldridgeinc.com.	8m1s IN NS	gate.aldridgeinc.com.

;; Total query time: 8258 msec
;; FROM: bilver.wjv.com to SERVER: 204.117.214.10
;; WHEN: Thu May 27 12:24:17 2004
;; MSG SIZE  sent: 33  rcvd: 68

Note that IP which resovles for the MX and NS

Server:  ns1.wanlogistics.net
Address:  63.209.114.2

Name:    250.muaa.mlwk.chcgil24.dsl.att.net
Address:  12.100.80.250

Since the server name and the reverse don't match many places will
reject that as a spam server on a DSL line.  And I could not
resolve at all last night so perhaps his DSL line was down or the
server was off line.   If he'd had a secondary MX I would have
never notice this as it would be sent along and held.

Bill
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Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com