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You're right - it only accepts mail if it arrives to

something@tugraz.at, not if it is addressed to

something@mail.tugraz.at. I guess that means I cannot enter a fixed IP

in Mercury for this domain, right?

Yes, however you might talk to the people running the mail.tugraz.at server about accepting literal addresses.   It's generally not that big a change to the system setup and they can still put these into the MX queue for the tugraz.at server.
<blockquote>You're right - it only accepts mail if it arrives to something@tugraz.at, not if it is addressed to something@mail.tugraz.at. I guess that means I cannot enter a fixed IP in Mercury for this domain, right?</blockquote>Yes, however you might talk to the people running the mail.tugraz.at server about accepting literal addresses.   It's generally not that big a change to the system setup and they can still put these into the MX queue for the tugraz.at server.

Hi everybody,

I would like to do domain forwarding as described in: http://community.pmail.com/forums/thread/14135.aspx.

I implemented method 1 described in the article linked to above, that is, I added the following entry to my mercury.ini:

[Rewrite]
#tugraz.at: [129.27.124.69] 

(The reason for why I want/need to reroute all mails to this domain to a fixed IP is not important for the discussion here, but it's described in http://community.pmail.com/forums/thread/21667.aspx)

The problem then is that I get the following error: 

T 20100210 163955 4b72d29b Begin processing job MO000002 from myuser@mydomain.com
T 20100210 164003 4b72d29b Established ESMTP connection to 129.27.124.68
T 20100210 164003 4b72d29b MAIL FROM:<myuser@mydomain.com> SIZE=5529
T 20100210 164006 4b72d29b 250 2.1.0 <myuser@mydomain.com>... Sender ok
T 20100210 164006 4b72d29b RCPT TO:<remoteuser@[129.27.124.69]>
E 20100210 164006 4b72d29b 550 5.1.1 <remoteuser@[129.27.124.69]>... User unknown
T 20100210 164006 4b72d29b Connection closed normally. 

Apparently, the remote server does not accept mails addressed to "@[129.27.124.69]", even though it accepts mail to the corresponding domain "@tugraz.at". Is there any way I can make Mercury send to this fixed IP, but keep the mail address unchanged?

Cheers,
Stefan. 

&lt;p&gt;Hi everybody,&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I would like to do domain forwarding as described in: http://community.pmail.com/forums/thread/14135.aspx.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I implemented method 1 described in the article linked to above, that is, I added the following entry to my mercury.ini:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;[Rewrite] #tugraz.at: [129.27.124.69]&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;(The reason for why I want/need to reroute all mails to this domain to a fixed IP is not important for the discussion here, but it&#039;s described in&amp;nbsp;http://community.pmail.com/forums/thread/21667.aspx)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The problem then is that I get the following error:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;T 20100210 163955 4b72d29b Begin processing job MO000002 from myuser@mydomain.com T 20100210 164003 4b72d29b Established ESMTP connection to 129.27.124.68 T 20100210 164003 4b72d29b MAIL FROM:&amp;lt;myuser@mydomain.com&amp;gt; SIZE=5529 T 20100210 164006 4b72d29b 250 2.1.0 &amp;lt;myuser@mydomain.com&amp;gt;... Sender ok T 20100210 164006 4b72d29b RCPT TO:&amp;lt;remoteuser@[129.27.124.69]&amp;gt; E 20100210 164006 4b72d29b 550 5.1.1 &amp;lt;remoteuser@[129.27.124.69]&amp;gt;... User unknown T 20100210 164006 4b72d29b Connection closed normally.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Apparently, the remote server does not accept mails addressed to &quot;@[129.27.124.69]&quot;, even though it accepts mail to the corresponding domain &quot;@tugraz.at&quot;. Is there any way I can make Mercury send to this fixed IP, but keep the mail address unchanged?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Cheers, Stefan.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

Apparently, the remote server does not accept mails addressed to

"@[129.27.124.69]", even though it accepts mail to the corresponding

domain "@tugraz.at". Is there any way I can make Mercury send to this

fixed IP, but keep the mail address unchanged?

I assume that the domain tugraz.at is properly entered into the DNS with an IP address pointing to 129.27.124.69.  Ok, no it is not but mail.tugraz.at points to this IP address and this server accepts mail for tugraz.at as a MX host.   Have you tried doing a re-write to mail.tugraz.at instead of the IP address literal?

Strange, I tried to test this and neither mail.tugraz.at nor 129.27.124.69 are accepting mail from the outside world.  This looks like the problem is bigger than just a delivery problem.

 

 

 

 

 

&lt;blockquote&gt;Apparently, the remote server does not accept mails addressed to &quot;@[129.27.124.69]&quot;, even though it accepts mail to the corresponding domain &quot;@tugraz.at&quot;. Is there any way I can make Mercury send to this fixed IP, but keep the mail address unchanged?&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;I assume that the domain tugraz.at is properly entered into the DNS with an IP address pointing to 129.27.124.69.&amp;nbsp; Ok, no it is not but mail.tugraz.at points to this IP address and this server accepts mail for tugraz.at as a MX host. &amp;nbsp; Have you tried doing a re-write to mail.tugraz.at instead of the IP address literal?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Strange, I tried to test this and neither mail.tugraz.at nor 129.27.124.69 are accepting mail from the outside world.&amp;nbsp; This looks like the problem is bigger than just a delivery problem. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

You're right - it only accepts mail if it arrives to something@tugraz.at, not if it is addressed to something@mail.tugraz.at. I guess that means I cannot enter a fixed IP in Mercury for this domain, right?

Cheers,
Stefan. 

&lt;p&gt;You&#039;re right - it only accepts mail if it arrives to something@tugraz.at, not if it is addressed to something@mail.tugraz.at. I guess that means I cannot enter a fixed IP in Mercury for this domain, right?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Cheers, Stefan.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
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