Re: [Exim] MX verification ACL

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Subject: Re: [Exim] MX verification ACL
[ On Thursday, January 23, 2003 at 10:13:42 (+0000), Philip Hazel wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: [Exim] MX verification ACL
>
> On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, Greg A. Woods wrote:
>
> > I would highly recommend that Exim not chase MX target CNAMEs any more
> > either, at least not by default.
>
> RFC 2821 specifies that CNAMES pointing to MXs are to be supported. Exim
> uses a common function for DNS lookups that has CNAME chasing built-in.


Yes of course. However MX's pointing to CNAME's are absolutely invalid,
and always have been. (That's what I meant by "MX target" :-))

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