Re: [exim] Host lookup process

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Autor: Philip Hazel
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To: Troy Settle
CC: exim-users
Betreff: Re: [exim] Host lookup process
On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Troy Settle wrote:

> Can someone point me to a description of how Exim performs host lookups for
> resolving domains and/or mx servers, complete with information as to what
> would cause the process not to complete?


It calls the local DNS resolver. (Unless it's using an unusual
configuration.)

> I have a customer who can't email their attorney because exim can't complete
> the host lookup for the attorney's domain.
>
> I've done it manually, and it seems to work fine.


Get your customer to run

exim -d+resolver -bt xx@???

Or get them to run manual DNS lookups on their hosts.


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