On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Dmitry Alyabyev wrote:
> 2000-07-10 15:07:40 13BcLa-0005Dv-00 == if@??? R=lookuphost defer
> (-1): lowest numbered MX record points to local host
> 123.com preference = 30, mail exchanger = relay2.mydomain.com
> 123.com preference = 20, mail exchanger = mail.123.com
> 123.com preference = 10, mail exchanger = mail.123.com
> 123.com preference = 20, mail exchanger = relay.mydomain.com
> 123.com nameserver = mail.123.com
> 123.com nameserver = ns.mydomain.com
> 123.com nameserver = nss.mydomain.com
>
> Exim-host is relay.mydomain.com
>
> Comment (or the clue): host mail.123.com is down.
Does it have a proper A record? (I assume it does, but it is worth
asking. As you didnt' give the real domain, I can't check.)
> But why exim doesn't try to deliver it to mail.123.com every time
> because of lowest MX ?
Try running a delivery with -d9 to see if that gives any clue.
On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Andrew wrote:
> It may have something to do with the fact that mail.123.com has a priority
> of both 10 and 20
> remove the pref =20 one.
Indeed. I noticed that too. What Exim should do is ignore the =20 one.
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