Re: Trying to email customers that use a spam service

Rob, there is not necessarily a host at scj.com. Proper mailers (including 
Domino) will resolve the mail domain via the MX entries first and use 
those hosts, in numeric  order. The problem must be with resolving mail40 
and mail28.messagelabs.com or even the MX lookup for scj.com

You can do NSLOOKUP on your AS/400 if you have "57xxSS1 option  31, OS/400 
- Domain Name System" installed.
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Tom Kreimer
Information Alternatives


On occasion it works
10/18/2004 08:56:55   Router: Transferred 1 messages to SCJ.COM (host 
mail40.messagelabs.COM) via SMTP
So I suspect it's not an issue with Notes vs. antispam services

Rob Berendt


I have a customer whose email domain is scj.com.  A biggie.  When I email 
them I am getting:
No route found to domain scj.com from server INTERNOTES02/DEKKO.  Check 
DNS configuration.

Traditionally I'd try pinging scj.com from that server.  Now, they might 
block pings, but at least I should get DNS resolution.  I don't get DNS 
resolution, instead I get:
Unknown host, SCJ.COM.     TCP3202

I tried this web site:
http://www.zmailer.org/mxverify-cgi.html
for scj.com and it looks like there are using an antispam service.
DNS yields following MX entries 
  scj.com  (20215s) IN MX  10 mail40.messagelabs.com
  scj.com  (20215s) IN MX  30 mail28.messagelabs.com


Is the problem:
- the failure to resolve the DNS entry to plain scj.com
- Notes doesn't handle these correctly
- ???

Rob Berendt