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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