Tom,

Thanx for the reference to www.dnsstuff.com  ... it helps when you have a place to check your work.  I seem to be running into issues with the SPF records and I had a Reverse DNS Lookup issue, but I'm not sure the DNS info has had enough time to propagate.

Regards,

Keith

Greetings,

I have used Mercury for quite a while handling incoming POP3.  I'm finally trying to get SMTP (outgoing) functioning direct from me using the SMTP Client (Protocol E - End-to-End) and keep hitting my head again a wall here.  Much of the time outgoing mail DOES go, however there are a few domains that are giving me real headaches.  The biggest problems are domains like YAHOO.COM and HOTMAIL.COM with GMAIL.COM another that sometimes gives me grief.

My best guess is that I am not identifying myself (server) properly and that these sites are choking on a DNS Reverse Lookup or some such thing...

My system is a Windows XP pro-SP2 with all current pataches...

I have a static IP and am trying to serve mulitple domain names (DiscusDataLtd.NET, HVACmodel.NET)

In the SMTP-E Connection Window I see somehting that I suspect is wrong, but I do not know what to do to correct it.  It contains:

Mercury/32 Transport System, Full SMTP Client Module v4.01b,

.

Current name service information:

Host file : C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts

Domain :

Nameserver 1 : 64.141.171.2

Nameserver 2 : 63.250.246.10

Nameserver 3 : 63.250.224.15

Why is the DOMAIN field empty?

Keith Weatherhead

keithw@ddltd.com

[quote user="KeithW"]

Greetings,

I have used Mercury for quite a while handling incoming POP3.  I'm finally trying to get SMTP (outgoing) functioning direct from me using the SMTP Client (Protocol E - End-to-End) and keep hitting my head again a wall here.  Much of the time outgoing mail DOES go, however there are a few domains that are giving me real headaches.  The biggest problems are domains like YAHOO.COM and HOTMAIL.COM with GMAIL.COM another that sometimes gives me grief.

My best guess is that I am not identifying myself (server) properly and that these sites are choking on a DNS Reverse Lookup or some such thing...

My system is a Windows XP pro-SP2 with all current pataches...

I have a static IP and am trying to serve mulitple domain names (DiscusDataLtd.NET, HVACmodel.NET)

In the SMTP-E Connection Window I see somehting that I suspect is wrong, but I do not know what to do to correct it.  It contains:

Mercury/32 Transport System, Full SMTP Client Module v4.01b,

.

Current name service information:

Host file : C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts

Domain :

Nameserver 1 : 64.141.171.2

Nameserver 2 : 63.250.246.10

Nameserver 3 : 63.250.224.15

Why is the DOMAIN field empty?

Keith Weatherhead

keithw@ddltd.com

[/quote]

There are a couple of red flag problems with your domains as shown at

http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/dnsreport.ch?%26domain%3DHVACmodel.NET and

http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/dnsreport.ch?%26domain%3DDiscusDataLtd.NET

The domain DiscusDataltd.net show a critical warning.s how bad MX record and can very easily be the problem

WARNING: One or more of your MX records points to a CNAME. CNAMEs are prohibited in MX records, according to RFC974, RFC1034 3.6.2, RFC1912 2.4, and RFC2181 10.3. The problem MX record(s) are:
smtp.secureserver.net.->smtp.where.secureserver.net.->64.202.166.12

Configuration, MercuryE, General Tab: Enter a value for "Announce / Identify myself as"

[quote user="Peter Strömblad"]Configuration, MercuryE, General Tab: Enter a value for "Announce / Identify myself as"[/quote]

Peter,

 Tahnx for the reply, I set the value in "Announce/Identify.." and the start up display in the Connection History window still DOES NOT show any value for the Domain : line, any other ideas?

Regards,

Keith