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DavidH

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I hope someone can help with this.

I have 1 MX record pointing at my smtp server with a priority of 5, and the second built in record with priority 10 pointing at jodohosts pop server.

Most mail sent to the domain goes to the correct place, the smtp server. But some does not, for instance I have a domain on a shared hosting account on jodohost; all mail from this account goes to the pop servers and not the smtp server as it should.

I am going to have the smtp server collect from the POP server every 15 minutes, but this isn't ideal. Can anyone shead any light as to why this is happening, and how I go about correcting it?

Thanks,

David
 
I have a similar problem, I think..
Are you using some kind of forwarding for these email addresses? If mail if for some reason relayed through a JodoHost mailserver, the mail will stay there, even though there is a higher priority MX record. If one of the lower priority records matches the server the mail is being relayed through, that's where it stays.

I haven't found any way around it yet myself, so I'm left with polling mailboxes every so many minutes. Less than ideal indeed.
 
DavidH said:
for instance I have a domain on a shared hosting account on jodohost; all mail from this account goes to the pop servers and not the smtp server as it should.
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Do you have low priority MX record for this "domain on a shared hosting account" also?
 
Ok I think I confused the issue somewhat by mentioning the seperate 'shared hosting account' as it is pretty much irrelevant so i'll rephrase.

I have a reseller account with jodohost. On one of the domains on the reseller account I have set the primary mx record to point to an SMTP server outside jodohost, and the secondary record to point back to jodohosts pop servers.

Not all mail is going to the server at the primary record. there seems to be some concistancy in the mail does not go to the smtp server.

For example, all the mail from another domain hosted with jodohost is going to the pop address, not the smtp address, IE: going to the secondary record not the primary.

Cheers,

David
 
DavidH said:
For example, all the mail from another domain hosted with jodohost is going to the pop address, not the smtp address, IE: going to the secondary record not the primary.
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That is normal, for the reason I provided above. In this situation the mail will have passed through the JodoHost mailserver, which happens to be secondary mailserver for your domain. Because of that, the mailserver considers the message delivered.
 
DavidH said:
OK, what about the various bits and pieces that arnt on jodohost that are coming into the pop box?
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A lot of malicious mass mailing software (the kind used by spammers) intentionally sends mail to secondary mailservers without even attempting to send it to the primary server first.
Probably in the hope that this will circumvent anti-spam measures...
 
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