Delivery Problems and Gateway Protocol Problem

Problem reported by J Lee - 3/2/2022 at 1:53 PM

Known

Hi Guys

I'm seeing this issue with Gateways in SM 16.3.6989 and SM 7957.

I'm also seeing this issue with any delivery that can't find MX and the SM tries to deliver to the A record which in some situations is the completely wrong email server.

Smartermail should have a setting to turn off Delivery to A record and bounce the email.

Below is a similar issue with Gateway Settings using the same deliver to A record.

When starting delivery I see this in the logs

[2022.03.02] 10:51:31 [67687] Failed to connect to the recipient's mail server. No MX records were found for the 'smtp.mailchannels.net' domain. Failing over to A records.

Delivery for this email is using the Gateway for mailchannels.

This looks like Smarter mail is trying to look up MX using the Gateway connection server URL setting. This should not work like this.

There needs to be another field in Gateway settings for the proper MX or Smartermail needs instructions on how to look up MX for mailchannels.net and not smtp.mailchannels.net or it needs to just use the server setting smtp.mailchannels.net and skip the lookup for Gateway delivery.

This appears to be an issue for a long time and causes bounce problems and delivery sometimes to the wrong servers.

J. Sebastian Lee Service2Client LLC 6333 E Mockingbird Ste 147 Dallas, TX 75214 - 877.251.3273

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Kyle Kerst Replied

3/2/2022 at 4:28 PM

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Sorry to hear you're seeing those delays during the relay process! This is a known behavior and we have a development task opened to correct this since gateway communication should not require an MX lookup before being carried out.

Kyle Kerst Lead Internal Network/System Administrator SmarterTools Inc. smartertools.com

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