On Sun, 30 Aug 1998, Rusty Sand wrote:
> I'm trying to get Exim to send all mail to unknown $local_part to an
> internal mail server using driver=smtp, but unknowns just sit in the
> queue. I set this up as per FAQ question Q0403.
... which I will expand to make it clear how the host's IP addresses are
found. Thanks for pointing out the omission.
> The spec says
> the address is looked up in the DNS. Does this imply that it only
> checks with the DNS server & doesn't check /etc/hosts ?
Correct. If you want it to look at other sources of info, set the
gethostbyname option.
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