Hi!

I have a problem that I'm struggling to get a solution to. Exchange seems to
be sending mail to a provider on it's A-record host, not the MX. The
following appears in my log:

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A non-delivery report with a status code of 5.3.0 was generated for
recipient rfc822;theuser@online.no (Message-ID
<AEE1EC6506FF364AA0FED88265B66299023F7B@myhost.mydomain.local>).
Causes: Exchange mistakenly attempted mail delivery to an incorrect MTA route

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This is an SMTP protocol error log for virtual server ID 1, connection #42.
The remote host "148.122.161.36", responded to the SMTP command "rcpt" with
"553 5.3.0 <theuser@online.no>... We do not relay from my.mx.ip.here ". The
full command sent was "RCPT TO:<theuser@online.no> ". This will probably
cause the connection to fail.

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This _only_ happens when one of my users tries to send a mail to the
online.no-domain.

nslookup responds with the following for online.no:

Non-authoritative answer:
online.no nameserver = ns2.nextra.no
online.no nameserver = ns1.nextra.no
online.no MX preference = 10, mail exchanger = mx.online.no
online.no internet address = 148.122.161.36

online.no nameserver = ns1.nextra.no
online.no nameserver = ns2.nextra.no
ns1.nextra.no internet address = 148.122.208.98
ns2.nextra.no internet address = 148.122.161.2
mx.online.no internet address = 193.213.115.10

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The real problem is that Exhange tries to send the mail to the internet
address (A-record), and not to the MX (193.213.115.10). I've searched
everywhere, without figuring out _why_. I have also been in touch with the
provider, and they are unable to provide me with any leads to why this is
happening.

Any help is greatly appreciated!


Regards,
Lars

RE: NDR with 5.3.0. Exchange Mistakenly sent mail to incorrect MTA by Lars

Lars
Thu Sep 22 12:11:04 CDT 2005

OK,

Now I'm going to get my head checked... Sorry, but this post should of course
go to the SBS 2003 newsgroup.

Sorry about that, folks...