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<slavins@hearsay.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> I don't understand this: it looks like a glitch since the message
> is actually addressed to a user on your machine.  There's only one
> other legitimate possibility I can think of: that ntlworld's
> email systems was incorrectly configured to send mail to a certain
> machine at Demon's system.  This is a violation of the standards
> but people sometimes do it because it saves time.  I find it hard
> to imagine that ntlworld would configure their machines that way.


I now think I know what's happening. Behind the AirPort, 
EIMS on startup tries DNS to discover its identity. Whether 
it decides it is pinza or not is not predictable, although I
have set pinza as its default. I have it set not to relay
except for the local domain, as Demon advise, so on this
occasion, and again once since, it bounced everything because
it thought it was not pinza.

Apple have released a firmware upgrade (v 4.0.4) for AirPort 
which solves the problem I was trying to monitor with EIMS,
so I have now reverted to AddMail, and all seems well.

Cheers,
Francis K.

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