Re: [Exim] IPv6 E-mail and AAAA records

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Author: Andre Grueneberg
Date:  
To: Kevin Sindhu
CC: exim-users, Kevin.sindhu
Subject: Re: [Exim] IPv6 E-mail and AAAA records
Hi Kevin,

Kevin Sindhu wrote:
> Excellent. Thanks Andre. Surprisingly exim refused to relay mail to
> devil.postfix.ca from your machine(leela.home.grueneberg.de or IPv6
> address 2001:638:801:1000::10) because it has an AAAA record and no A
> record(hence no reverse lookup). This is wrong on exim's part....or not?
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 2001-09-06 10:52:57 refused relay (host) to
> <Kevin.sindhu@???> from <ag@???>
> H=(www.pseudonym.org) [195.226.161.194] (failed to find host name from
>         IP address)
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Comments? 


It wasn't my machine that tried to reach devil.postfix.ca, but
www.pseudonym.org (with the logged IP address). You'd need
devil.postfix.ca in relay_domains on the Exim machine, otherwise it
wouldn't relay the mail.

Andre
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