I think that you need to change the reference on your DNS fot the MX record to 10, because I got this result when I did test on your server from one of my DNS servers. Verifying email address: cmcnally@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Found 1 mail exchange servers for the domain: seatingconcepts.com: Mail Host: mail.seatingconcepts.com Preference: 0 Begining verification attempt 1 MX Lookup: seatingconcepts.com using host: mail.seatingconcepts.com Connecting to Mail Server mail.seatingconcepts.com at IP: 64.172.228.132 220 SC-SAN-MAIL-01.seatingconcepts.com Microsoft ESMTP MAIL Service, Version: 5.0.2195.5329 ready at Tue, 21 Jan 2003 14:00:52 -0800 HELO Toolkit 250 SC-SAN-MAIL-01.seatingconcepts.com Hello [12.17.12.66] VRFY cmcnally@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 252 2.1.5 Cannot VRFY user, but will take message for <cmcnally@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Test passed: Email address: cmcnally@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx verified! Note: Although VRFY may have succeeded; many mail server's return a success even when the command fails. MAIL FROM:<cmcnally@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 250 2.1.0 cmcnally@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx OK RCPT TO:<cmcnally@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 250 2.1.5 cmcnally@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Test passed: Email address: cmcnally@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx verified! QUIT 221 2.0.0 SC-SAN-MAIL-01.seatingconcepts.com Service closing transmission channel -----Original Message----- From: Chris McNally [mailto:cmcnally@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 2:41 PM To: [ExchangeList] Subject: RE: [exchangelist] RE: Not all mail coming in. The MX record was not changed and public queries resolve. -----Original Message----- From: Ezzeldin S. Ezzeldin [mailto:ezzeldin@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tue 1/21/2003 11:26 AM To: [ExchangeList] Cc: Subject: [exchangelist] RE: Not all mail coming in. When did you change the MX record? Ezzeldin -----Original Message----- From: Chris McNally [mailto:cmcnally@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 1:16 PM To: [ExchangeList] Subject: Not all mail coming in. Hi all, Inconsistent problem. Some users are not getting some mail from domains. For example usera might recieve some test emails from hotmail but not all. userb receives all test emails from hotmail (or yahoo or private domain etc.) All outgoing mail is successful. DNS/MX records are fine, not sure where to look.