Internet Email Not Undeliverable - MTA Trying Actual Internet IP Address.

  • 7003151
  • 28-Apr-2009
  • 27-Apr-2012

Environment

Novell GroupWise 7
Novell GroupWise 8
Novell GroupWise 6.5

Situation

The following is returned to the sender as an inbound email:

'Item to user  at <external Internet domain name> was undeliverable.'

The MTA log shows the connection being tried to the IP Address of the specific Internet domain name.

Resolution

The only Internet domain name in ConsoleOne Tool as | GroupWise System Operations | Internet Addressing was not set to 'Preferred.'  Setting is as Preferred resolved the issue.