Re: [Exim] Trying to treat a IP as the local host

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Author: Dave C.
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To: Alberto García
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Trying to treat a IP as the local host
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On Sat, 18 May 2002, Alberto [iso-8859-1] Garc?a wrote:

> El s?bado 18/05/2002 a las 14:20, Dave C. dec?a...
>
> > > when Exim tries to route mail, it does not know that the public IP of the
> > > router should be treated as the local host.
> > Try ignore_target_hosts in your lookuphost router. It takes IP
> > addresses.
>
>     This works, but it has a problem: if I'm a secondary MX for a
> domain, and there is a MX with lower priority, when the primary MX is down
> my machine will send the mail to the third MX, instead of keeping it while
> the primary is down.

>
>     Then, the third MX will send back the mail to me, and so on,
> causing a mail loop.

>


Good point.

You could try setting local_interfaces to the outside IP, and
actually configuring an interface (eg loopback ) to be that IP, so that
exim will accept that is its IP.

Most people just dont put their mailservers behind NAT.

> Berto.
>



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