OT?: Emailing from within filepro

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 09:57:47PM -0400, 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.

Aha!

(It's something we support people say...)

Maybe *this* is why he's having problems.  Using made-up or
unresolvable FQDN's can have unexpected ramifications...

Cheers,
-- jra
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