Re: [Exim] How to enable IP MX'es

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Petr Cech
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] How to enable IP MX'es
On Fri, 11 Feb 2000, Petr Cech wrote:

> because it's against RFC? And exim can use it. I have
> lookupipmx:
> driver = lookuphost
> gethostbyname = true
> transport = smtp


This does not make Exim use the IP address on the RHS of an MX record.
If the DNS contains

bad.domain   MX 5   10.9.8.7
other.domain  A     10.9.8.7


Then your router will not work for x@???. It will only work if
"other.domain" happens to be the same as "bad.domain", because
x@??? will work.


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