> > > I'm glad you contacted me. It seems that the lsoft servers "spoof" our
> > > MX records and open incoming pipes to chudys.com as well as to
> > > gloryroad.net, and while gloryroad.net does allow connections from
> > > lsoft, chudys.com (as our internal mail server) does NOT- unless
> > > gloryroad.net has been downed for servicing and chudys.com is in
> > > fact acting as mail relay for gloryroad.net.

Here's what an nslookup for chudsys.net shows:

Header:
   ID=11223, QR=Response, Opcode=QUERY, RCODE=NO ERROR
   Authoritative Answer=Yes, Truncation=No
   Recursion Desired=Yes, Recursion Available=Yes
   QDCOUNT=1, ANCOUNT=8, NSCOUNT=4, ARCOUNT=6
Question:
   Name=chudys.com, QTYPE=ALL, QCLASS=1
Answer Section:
- Name=chudys.com
    Type=MX, Class=1, TTL=86400 (1 Day), RDLENGTH=9
    Preference=5, Mail Exchange=mail.chudys.com  <---------------------------
- Name=chudys.com
    Type=MX, Class=1, TTL=86400 (1 Day), RDLENGTH=24
    Preference=10, Mail Exchange=server.moongroup.com
- Name=chudys.com
    Type=A, Class=1, TTL=86400 (1 Day), RDLENGTH=4
    IP Address=216.228.97.2
- Name=chudys.com
    Type=NS, Class=1, TTL=86400 (1 Day), RDLENGTH=19
    Name Server=NS1.gloryroad.net
- Name=chudys.com
    Type=NS, Class=1, TTL=86400 (1 Day), RDLENGTH=6
    Name Server=NS2.gloryroad.net
- Name=chudys.com
    Type=NS, Class=1, TTL=86400 (1 Day), RDLENGTH=6
    Name Server=NS3.gloryroad.net
- Name=chudys.com
    Type=NS, Class=1, TTL=86400 (1 Day), RDLENGTH=6
    Name Server=NS4.gloryroad.net
- Name=chudys.com
    Type=SOA, Class=1, TTL=86400 (1 Day), RDLENGTH=29
    Name Server=NS1.gloryroad.net, Mailbox=root.NS1.gloryroad.net
    Serial=-831681914
    Refresh=10800 (3 Hours)
    Retry=3600 (1 Hour)
    Expire=604800 (7 Days)
    Minimum TTL=86400 (1 Day)

What this means is that they are telling the world to send mail for
chudsys.com to mail.chudsys.com.  If that system doesn't respond,
then it should be sent to server.moongroup.com.