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

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Lauri Tischler
CC: exim-users@exim.org
Subject: Re: [Exim] Refusing mail because of missing MX record
On Mon, 1 Apr 2002, Lauri Tischler wrote:

> 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) :)
>
> Is there way to do that on Exim ?
> By reading the docs, mx_domain affects sending only.


In Exim 4 you can easily do this by using a "dnsdb" lookup in a
"condition" condition in an ACL. But all you could check is the sending
*domain*, not the server. (There's no reason for a server to have an MX
record, after all.)


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