Re: [Exim] exim or other error

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Author: Fred Viles
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] exim or other error
On 30 Mar 2004 at 22:34, Leonardo Boselli wrote about
    "[Exim] exim or other error":


| I got an error sending to *@altavista.* ( either .it or .com or fr or ... is the
| same).
| " all relevant MX records point to non-existent hosts "

|
| It looks that the MX record is just
| altavista.com.          76      IN      MX      0 .
| of course "." does not resolve well ...


Yup. There is no A record for ".", so exim's error message is
exactly right.

| host altavista.* resolve always to 209.73.164.90 ...


That does not matter, an MX record exists and it does not point to
any altavista.* name.

| the p[roblem is either with exim 4.30 and 3.36


No, exim has no problem. The problem is with altavista.com's DNS.

- Fred