mbaker@??? said:
} IMHO exim should not attempt other mx's if the message matches a host
} in relay_domains. Currently it looks at the MX list and tries to
} decide if it is in it.
Thats obviously not sensible. relay_domains contains incoming domains
that exim relays for - ie the relay control is more lax for those domains.
It says nothing about how you route to those domains - if they are local
then they should be in local_domains otherwise there should be some means
of routing messages to the final destination - ie some router handling
them.
} What happened to me is one of my multi-homed mailhosts lost one
} interface so exim did not know that it was in the mx list of a host
} and started sending mail to the only avail mx which sent it back to
} exim and so on creating a mail loop and bouncing all the mail. The
} solution seems to be to set the 'local_interfaces' directive to all
} your interfaces so exim can find itself in the mx lists, but this
} seems kludgy and unintuitive somehow :<
I think there must be more of the jigsaw here than first meets the eye.
DOes the "hosts_treat_as_local" option match this problem??
Nigel.
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