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helo from merc not accurate

Mercury doesn't discriminate on specific interfaces.  The greeting string will be the same, no matter what the local address of the connected socket is.  As far as I can tell, there's in fact no way to tell Mercury to do anything more than bind to specific addresses for use as server; client sockets are decided as usual by the OS according to address reachability (that's behaviour you can change in Windows itself if you've a mind, but by default it's based on the IP number of the destination).

 

Cheers,

Sabahattin

 

<P>Mercury doesn't discriminate on specific interfaces.  The greeting string will be the same, no matter what the local address of the connected socket is.  As far as I can tell, there's in fact no way to tell Mercury to do anything more than bind to specific addresses for use as server; client sockets are decided as usual by the OS according to address reachability (that's behaviour you can change in Windows itself if you've a mind, but by default it's based on the IP number of the destination).</P> <P mce_keep="true"> </P> <P>Cheers,</P> <P>Sabahattin</P> <P mce_keep="true"> </P>

I have a Mercury setup that I have used for years now.

It has been working great.

I just recently added a second network card to the same computer.

This 2nd NIC has a different IP, and gateway.

The first NIC is attached to a DSL line from one ISP, and the 2nd NIC is attached to a different Fiber line from a differnet ISP. 

I am using this with 2 MX records - all pointing to the same instance of Mercury Mail.

Mercury is receiving mail just fine on both "lines" .

However, when Mercury sends it's initial "220 " helo on the 2nd NIC it looks like "220 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" instead of "220 domain.com"

everything otherwise seems to work.

 

<p>I have a Mercury setup that I have used for years now.</p><p>It has been working great.</p><p>I just recently added a second network card to the same computer.</p><p>This 2nd NIC has a different IP, and gateway.</p><p>The first NIC is attached to a DSL line from one ISP, and the 2nd NIC is attached to a different Fiber line from a differnet ISP. </p><p>I am using this with 2 MX records - all pointing to the same instance of Mercury Mail.</p><p>Mercury is receiving mail just fine on both "lines" .</p><p>However, when Mercury sends it's initial "220 " helo on the 2nd NIC it looks like "220 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" instead of "220 domain.com"</p><p>everything otherwise seems to work.</p><p> </p>

Are you sure you are looking directly at the Mercury/32 system when you do this?  This really looks like one of those strings where a router is messing with the reply from the system.

 

<p>Are you sure you are looking directly at the Mercury/32 system when you do this?  This really looks like one of those strings where a router is messing with the reply from the system.</p><p> </p>
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