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I'll start off with that I know this isn't a Scalix issue, but thought I might be able to get some insight to what I'm doing wrong here. No outbout emails are being delivered. I've configured the smarthost, but that is where things go a little odd. here is what I get from dig

root@colony2:/etc/mail> dig -tMX smtp.iowatelecom.net

; <<>> DiG 9.2.4 <<>> -tMX smtp.iowatelecom.net
;; global options: printcmd
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached

and then

root@colony2:/etc/mail> dig -tMX http://smtp.iowatelecom.net

; <<>> DiG 9.2.4 <<>> -tMX http://smtp.iowatelecom.net
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 1247
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;http://smtp.iowatelecom.net. IN MX

;; Query time: 47 msec
;; SERVER: 69.66.0.20#53(69.66.0.20)
;; WHEN: Wed Feb 21 15:09:21 2007
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 45


Odd that it works with http:// but not without.

I'm obviously overlooking something, most likely something obvious...

thanks

I got things to work, but I had to hardcode in the IP address. I hate to do that but at least it's working for now.