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Author: Marc Haber
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] how to prevent mail loops if exim is relief MTA for a broken sendmail
On Thu, 30 Mar 2000 15:22:10 +0100 (BST), you wrote:
>On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Marc Haber wrote:
>> domain MX 10 mail.customer.example.com
>> domain MX 20 S
>>
>> I am now concerned about what would happen if
>> mail.customer.example.com goes down. Would this cause the exim on E to
>> fall back to the secondary MX S, thus causing a mail loop? Can I
>> configure E to refrain from falling back to S in case S is a secondary
>> MX?
>
>hosts_treat_as_local


So
hosts_treat_as_local=S
is all I need? I don't quite understand what the docs say about
hosts_treat_as_local and allow_localhost.

Greetings
Marc

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