Re: How to disable local delivery of mail

["Patrick Archibald" <patrick.archibald@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hey Chris

I did call my AS/400 domain.com. Why is that bad?

My MX records do point to the new mail servers.

Thanx, PLA


On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 5:19 PM, Chris Bipes <chris.bipes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Please let us know the name of your AS/400 and the name of your domain?
> Your MX record should point to your new mail server and have a name such
> as mail.domain.com  where domain.com is your mail.  The IP of that MX
> record should point to the public IP of the server hosting your mail.
> Now you need to remove all internal references to mail.domain.com on
> your network, DNS and local host tables.
>
> Hopefully you did not call your AS/400 domain.com.
>
> Please send us what you can on your configuration.
>
>
>
>
> Chris Bipes
> Director of Information Services
> CrossCheck, Inc.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Patrick Archibald
> Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2008 1:32 PM
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> Subject: How to disable local delivery of mail
>
> Hi
>
> We have moved email services from our AS/400 to Google Apps Premier
> Edition.
> Everything is working great.
>
> I would like to continue sending  programmatic emails on the AS/400 to
> our users. I can't get the system to stop delivering email locally. I
> want the AS/400 to deliver email to the servers specified in the MX
> records.
>
> I've contacted IBM and they said there is no way to disable local
> delivery as long as the IP address for our domain name points to the
> AS/400.  I can't change that.
>
> Is there any way to disable local email delivery in the AS/400 SMTP
> settings?
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