7 messages in net.sourceforge.lists.courier-users[courier-users] esmtproutes and A/MX ...
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Bowie BaileyJun 25, 2004 8:33 am 
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Bowie BaileyJun 28, 2004 7:39 am 
Tim HunterJun 28, 2004 7:50 am 
Bowie BaileyJun 28, 2004 8:04 am 
Sam VarshavchikJun 28, 2004 3:32 pm 
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Subject:[courier-users] esmtproutes and A/MX recordsActions...
From:Bowie Bailey (Bowi@BUC.com)
Date:Jun 25, 2004 8:33:39 am
List:net.sourceforge.lists.courier-users

I found the problem with my outbound email through Bellsouth (See "Outbound authentication" thread).

I need to send my outbound email to "mail.bellsouth.net", however there are also MX records for this machine which point to machines that will not relay for me.

Is there any way to specify to esmptroutes to use only the A records? I hardcoded one of the IP addresses in the file and it works fine, but I don't like that solution because it's going to break if they change the IP addresses of their mail servers or remove the one I'm using.

These are the DNS responses I get:

mail.bellsouth.net. 6617 IN MX 0 mx00.mail.bellsouth.net. mail.bellsouth.net. 6617 IN MX 0 mx01.mail.bellsouth.net. mail.bellsouth.net. 3487 IN A 205.152.59.17 mail.bellsouth.net. 3487 IN A 205.152.59.16

mx00.mail.bellsouth.net. 6617 IN A 205.152.59.32 mx01.mail.bellsouth.net. 6617 IN A 205.152.59.33

I can send mail through 16 and 17, but not through 32 or 33.

Suggestions?

Bowie