Re: [Exim] lowest MX record - strange situation

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Auteur: Dmitry Alyabyev
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Aan: exim-users
Onderwerp: Re: [Exim] lowest MX record - strange situation
On 12 Jul 2000 15:14:18 +0300, Philip Hazel wrote:

>On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Dmitry Alyabyev wrote:
>
>> >> >> 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
>
>No. It must NOT deliver to any relay whose MX value is the same or
>greater than its own. Thus, if the Exim-host is relay.mydomain.com, the
>only choice it has is
>
> 123.com preference = 10, mail exchanger = mail.123.com


Agree fully.

>> It's not the usual but it's not wrong configuration, isn't it ?
>
>I can't find (yet :-) any RFC text forbidding it, but IMHO it doesn't
>make sense.


Please let me know if you will find that :-)

>We have a misunderstanding here. I don't think Exim is trying to behave
>differently to what you expect, other than skipping hosts it has already
>tried (but as explained above, if the current host is relay.mydomain.com
>it has only one host to try anyway). [Unless there's a bug, of course.]


Philip - general and only one strange point in that story is
following: Exim makes the messages (going to 123.com) frozen with
"lowest MX points to the localhost" instead send error message to
sender after retry time has been reached.

Is it Ok ???

--
Dimitry