Re: [cobalt-users] Pop before SMTP - I've had enough.

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Benedict wrote:

> I seem to have solved it by putting the right list of hosts/domains
> and alias-hosts/domains in the email- and site-Parameters of the RaQ.

Sounds like I was right; that the RaQ didn't know it was authoritative
for the domains.

Don't know why it happened, but it does.

> Second problem arises:
> If you don't use DNS on the machine itself, one cannot download
> large files from the RaQ*i or Qube3. Example reproducable scenario:
> Someone sends an email with a large attachment
> to a domain running on your server.
> DNS for the domain and MX is done by something like
> zoneedit.com or other third party free DNS service.
> Now try downloading the email plus attachment from
> the mailbox on the server, using only a primary NIC.
> It does not work.

I've got hundreds (thousands?) of customers for whom WE handle all DNS. 
None of them report this problem.  Why?  Because it's got nothing to do
with DNS.

I don't know why you're having the problem, and I'd love to take this
opportunity to knock the free DNS services, since they compete with me
<smile>, but except to point out that they're sometimes slow and
unreliable, I can't.  Because the fact is that once the domain name is
converted into an IP# it stays in both the server and client for hours,
and is NOT the cause of your problem.

Jeff
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