On Thu, 30 Aug 2001, Philip Hazel wrote:
>On 30 Aug 2001, Thorkild Stray wrote:
>
>> adm.mail.com MX 5 gw.mail.com
>> adm.mail.com MX 10 recv.mail.com
>> gw.mail.com does not allow connections directly to itself, it is
>> firewalled. To send mail, one must send it to recv.mail.com, which is
>> allowed to connect to the gw directly.
>DON'T DO THIS! Sorry for shouting, but this is something that is
>*really* annoying.
I totally agree! I don't like it at all, but this is not a system I am in
any way in control of. This is a remote system, and I am just getting
complained to because mails through mailservers I control bounce back.
>> The problem is when this has been going on for a while. Then the
>> "gw.mail.com" machine is blacklisted in Exim and it is bounced with:
>Quite right. Sorry to be hard here, but I think this is your problem,
>not Exim's problem.
Well, yes, but how should I best handle mailservers that are setup this
way? Sadly I can't get it changed since I don't have any control over it.
--
Thorkild
