Re: [Exim] Secondary Mail Server/Looping

Quoting "Steven R. Bourque" <sbourque@???>:

> We have a firewall with an IP : 207.139.193.66 tunneling port 25 to
> 10.10.6.70 (our mail server)
>
> Our mail server is secondary for some domains, and it is
> relaying/accepting the mail fine for those domains.
>
> As soon as it gets the mail and accepts it, it appears to check DNS for
> the MX records, and sees that the next one from the primary (which is
> down) is address 207.139.193.66 and tries to send it there. The
> firewall receives it and sends it back to 10.10.6.70, this process goes
> on until it detects the loop and the message is dropped.

[...]

> How can I get this
> server to know to hold the mail for MX pointing to
> 207.139.193.66/mail.packetworks.net or any domain in our domain list of
> secondaries?

See the hosts_treat_as_local option.

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Patrice Fournier
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