Re: [EXIM] Wildcard MX record causing problems

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Mike Zanker
CC: Tony Earnshaw, Exim
Subject: Re: [EXIM] Wildcard MX record causing problems
On Sun, 23 Nov 1997, Mike Zanker wrote:

> Matthew Frost kindly pointed out to me that I should be making use of the
> "search_parents" option in lookuphost to prevent the domain (demon.co.uk)
> being appended to failed DNS lookups and this indeed solved the problem.


There have been several cases of this recently, and one person has said
that I should change the default setting of search_parents in Exim. It
does seem to cause trouble, but if I do change it, how many
configurations am I going to break? Any opinions either way?

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