Mail servers

[phn at icke-reklam.ipsec.nu]

Pete Walker <pete.walker at adssolutions.co.uk> wrote:
> I am having problems sending e-mails to one domain in particular.  They all
> bounce back with the following error:

> ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
> <xyz at domain.co.uk>

>   ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> 554 permanent problems with the remote server mail.domain.co.uk

> When I contact their technical people I'm told that we are the only co.
> having problems sending to them and it must be our DNS settings at fault.

> I check their DNS settings and find that the mailserver doesn't respond
> properly, so I try to ping it (from outside as well) and it doesn't respond.

> So, I check mail settings for their domain and find that there are three
> mail servers listed (2 in other domains) and the priority is set highest (5)
> for the one which doesn't respond to a ping or traceroute.  The other two
> servers are set with priorities of 10 and 20 respectively.

> If anyone has any ideas as to what may be wrong I would love to hear from
> them,

> Kind regards,

You can always start with posting the real names ...



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