Re: [Exim] Refusing mail because of missing MX record

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Author: Leonardo Boselli
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Subject: Re: [Exim] Refusing mail because of missing MX record
On 1 Apr 2002, at 19:52, Lauri Tischler wrote: > There was some discussion about that on another forum.
> Any pros or cons ??
> Idea was that if sending server does not have valid MX record
> it is so badly administered that it is propably sending spam
> as well (and their users have lice and bad breath) :)

NOT necessarily .... consider for example a site that uses a lot of server for sending e- mail, more than listed in MX records (for example a site that manatains a number of mailing lists, where outgoing mail far exceed incoming) and, about from addresses [easy to forge, anyway] consider many
registration or bug notify messages, that [legitimately] originate from a normal host, sometimes even without am A record ...) > Is there way to do that on Exim ?
> By reading the docs, mx_domain affects sending only.
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> Cheers
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