THANKS! Adding 0.0.0.0 to ignore_target_hosts did the trick. I thought
that 0.0.0.0 would be treated as a wild card and was hesitant to add it
before.
-Paul
On Wed, 1 Jan 2003, Tabor J. Wells wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 01, 2003 at 07:02:34AM +0530,
> Suresh Ramasubramanian <mallet@???> is thought to have said:
>
> > On Wednesday, January 01, 2003 4:16 AM [GMT+0530=IST],
> > pkanz@??? (Paul Kanz) wrote:
> >
> > > What is the best way with Exim 3.x to handle sites that have bogus MX
> > > records - ones that list 0.0.0.0 as the IP address. A good example is
> > > myvzw.com:
> >
> > What my exim 4.10 does - which looks default - is
> >
> > frodo:~% sendmail -bv -v idiots@???
> > LOG: MAIN
> > lowest numbered MX record points to local host: myvzw.com (while
> > routing <idiots@???>)
> > idiots@??? cannot be resolved at this time:
> > lowest numbered MX record points to local host
> >
> > require verify = sender
> >
> > does the trick, I guess.
> >
> > In exim 3.x it is sender_verify
> >
> > srs
>
> There's also ignore_target_hosts in whatever router(s) you use for
> remote_smtp. I use:
>
> ignore_target_hosts = 0.0.0.0 : 127.0.0.0/8 : 10.0.0.0/8 : 192.168.0.0/16 :\
> 172.16.0.0/12
>
> Tabor
>
>
>
