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Author: Giuliano Gavazzi
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] deliver mails for domains with local mx to first mta
At 1:35 pm +0100 2004/12/11, Jonas Meurer wrote:
>On 11/12/2004 Peter Bowyer wrote:
>> If you leave the 'domains' clause out of the router, it will trigger for any
>> domain which hasn't already been handled in a previous router - this might
>> work for you.
>>
>> Or you could use
>>
>> domains = @mx_primary
>>
>> which will trigger for all domains for which this server is the best MX, and
>> which haven't already been handled in a previous router.
>
>both sound like great ideas, but the main problem is, that other routers
>(i.e. remote_smtp) will already fail before my one is checked, when i
>put it to the end. i tried moving my router directly after the dns
>routers, but then exim again fails with the error 'lowest numbered MX
>record points to local host: freesources.org'.


well, that means that dnslookup accept those mails and then correctly
complains. You could simply exclude these domains from dnslookup with

domains = ! @mx_primary

or something similar.

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