Re: [Exim] @mx_any and 127.0.0.1

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Dean Brooks
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] @mx_any and 127.0.0.1
On Thu, 15 Apr 2004, Dean Brooks wrote:

> Instead of hardcoding this information into the @mx_any logic,
> perhaps a global option of "ignore_target_hosts" (or similarly named)
> could be set. The global option could default, if not specified,
> to the 127.0.0.0/8 and 0.0.0.0 values.


Something like this sounds like the best plan. I will grep the code for
all the places where it might matter and think about how best to do it.

> @mx_any could use this value, and in the event that ignore_target_hosts
> isn't explicitly set on a router, it could inheret the global value.


I don't like that because of the incompatibility.

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