Re: [Exim] Exim as a secondary MX

At 21:14 +0100 2003/11/07, Steffan Henke wrote:
[...]
>The scenario I have is as follows:
>mx1.mydomain.com (sendmail)
>mx2.mydomain.com (Exim)
>
>mx1 is a primary MX, mx2 a secondary and has mydomain.com in
>/etc/secondarymx .
>
>Now, what has actually happened is:
>Emails from ordb.org written as
>"marvin@??? were accepted by the secondary mx,
>relayed to the primary mx, which in turn didn't deliver them locally, but
>instead relayed to marvin@???, resulting in a temporary
>listing at ordb.org.
>My question about this is:
>why did the Exim box accept "marvin@??? in the
>first place ? Is that a valid address according to the RFC ?
>
>If it is, is there a way to reject messages written like that in Exim ?
>It should not relay them at all.
>

I might be wrong, but this points the finger to your sendmail configuration.

Giuliano