Re: [Exim] lowest MX record - strange situation

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Autor: Dmitry Alyabyev
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A: exim-users
Assumpte: Re: [Exim] lowest MX record - strange situation
On 12 Jul 2000 14:14:29 +0300, Nigel Metheringham wrote:

>Anyhow, the MX specs say that exim *must* not deliver to
>>> >> 123.com preference = 20, mail exchanger = mail.123.com
>
>if the current host is
>>> >> 123.com preference = 20, mail exchanger = relay.mydomain.com
>
>since bouncing mail between equally prefered MXes is a mail loop and a
>bad thing(tm).


Agree fully.
But what about line:
    123.com preference = 10, mail exchanger = mail.123.com


Nigel, I don't want to fight about "is it good/bad way to put one host
with several preferences ?". It's not restricted neither by RFCs
neither by others rules so lets stop talk about that point.

What I want to know is: is it right way to do like Exim has done ?
Why Exim will try to deliver the message by other way instead to try
deliver it to died relays, stop to do it after retry-timeout and send
error message to sender ?

Domain 123.com is not local for relay.mydomain.com !!!


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Dimitry