Re: [Exim] Full marks to Exim :-)

At 6:08 +0530 2003/01/30, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
>On Wednesday, January 29, 2003 11:49 PM [GMT+0530=IST],
>Ruth Ivimey-Cook <Ruth.Ivimey-Cook@???> wrote:
>
>> I've just discovered that Exim is even better than I thought: a
>> domain I tried to send mail to had the one and only MX record set to
>> IP address 127.0.0.1. Exim rejected it:
>
>[...]
>
>> I've obscured the actual address to save the blushes of the guilty,
>> but I've also emailed them to point out their error (nicely).
>
>How would your mail reach them if they had their only MX pointing to
>127.0.0.1?
>

the contact in the SOA or in the whois record might point to an
address in a different domain. I would have not obscured the address
though, as pointing an MX to 127.0.0.1 or other illegal address asks
for an even worse retribution.

Giuliano