Wingate SMTP won't send to 2 domains

Sep 20 05 4:05 am

guys

got an issue with both my wingate installations where neither of them will send to either @kerridge.com or @aol.com. i've disabled DNS caching lookups on both boxes, but still nothing.

all i get back is a mail from the wingate servers saying 'failed all retries'.

Sep 20 05 11:14 am

Hi,

I know that AOL recently turned on reverse-lookups on their server, so if you're not hosting your domain on your server then you will fail your revers lookup, meaning any mail sent to AOL will fail.

You should probably send your email through a gateway and list your ISP as your gateway server in the Delivery options in the WinGate mail server.

Sep 20 05 11:12 pm

mmmm interesting - can i do both? inasmuch as can i deliver directly for 99.9% of items, but then use a gateway for things that just won't work, like AOL for example?

Sep 21 05 2:35 am

yes you can.

You can either get WinGate to fail over to the gateway, or you can redirect mail for domains, by creating a domain in WinGate.

E.g. to force delivery for mail for aol.com to go through your ISP, you would create a domain in WinGate called AOL.com, set mailboxes are remote, and specify the server as your ISP.

Any other problem domains you could add like this as well, although I guess failing over to your ISP would be easier, and not catch you out.

Adrien

Sep 21 05 2:49 am

so in domains, click 'enable domain': aol.com

and then tick in 'redirect all mail to..' and put in the smtp server of my isp?

Sep 21 05 2:53 am

Not quite.

Should be

enable domain AOL.com

select "mailboxes for this domain are hosted on another server"

Click on the "..." button.

Select "Deliver to a specific server"

Enter your ISP mail server details there.

Click OK.

Leave the "redirect all mail to" box unchecked

Adrien

Sep 21 05 3:26 am

just added those two domains in and restarted wingate and now it's... well.. it's broken (currently connected through second server)..

can i put in the Delivery section a 'use gateway for undeliverable messages' and put my ISP smtp in there?

will let you know when i get server1 back up - just got REALLY flaky internet connectivity now..

Sep 21 05 3:31 am

Hi

Shouldn't need to reboot for any of those changes.

Anyway, in answer to your question, yes you can. That was the purpose behind this feature.

Cheers

Adrien

Sep 21 05 3:35 am

no i just restarted the wingate - but when i did it seemed that all the mail it was sending out got totally screwed. i went into the mail/spool and deleted everything that was sitting to go out and it's up again now...

any thoughts behind that?

Sep 21 05 12:12 pm

What do you mean by "screwed" - were the messages corrupted, or did WinGate lock up or something?

Adrien

Sep 21 05 9:42 pm

'screwed' - isn't that a technical term?

connectivity across all services just stopped and started, everything was 'started' but no traffic was coming through any of the connections.

had to manually deleted everything that was currently in the mail queue - i guess adding in domains is something you need to do when no mail is currently going through the gate.

Sep 22 05 3:17 pm

the true meaning of the albeit commonly used term is not well defined :)

In general, instead of deleting mail, you can get it re-processed by:

a) stop WinGate
b) move all RCP and MSG files from Holding and domains folders into the \PostIn folder
c) start WinGate

If you add a domain after mail has been sorted already into delivery jobs, it won't see the updates, only new mail will.

Adrien