> > > 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.