Re: [Exim] best MX choice

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Autor: Philip Hazel
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On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Dmitry Sergienko wrote:

> I'm running Exim 4.12. One day I noticed that exim routes messages to MX
> with higher value than it is set for this machine. For example:
>
> I have domain example.net:
> example.net mail is handled (pri=10) by relay1.example.net
> example.net mail is handled (pri=25) by relay2.example.net
> example.net mail is handled (pri=150) by relay3.example.net
>
> relay2.example.net is machine where all happens.
> If relay1.example.net is in retry database, exim routes all messages to
> relay3.example.net, but it shouldn't do this, because relay2.example.net
> have higher priority (lower MX value) than relay3.example.net.


Please post more evidence of an actual case of this, such as the output
of a delivery run with debugging (-d) turned on. Are you sure that
relay2 is not in the retry database? Are you sure that relay2 has an MX
record that points to an accessible host?

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