Re: [exim] How to get the local MX? (And domain?)

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Author: Toralf Lund
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] How to get the local MX? (And domain?)
Tony Finch wrote:

>On Wed, 16 Mar 2005, Toralf Lund wrote:
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>>Is there a simple and direct way to obtain the MX for the local domain?
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>No, because it is not well defined. What's the local domain?
>$primary_hostname? Some parent domain of $primary_hostname?
>$qualify_domain? +local_domains? These are all different on
>my machines, and they still fail to cover all the possibilities.
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Maybe it's not that *well-defined,* but it in the Linux world it's at
least *defined*. See 'man dnsdomainname'.

>In fact the concept of "local domain" might not be explicitly
>defined in the configuration at all. What is more, each of the
>possible domains may have any number of MXs.
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I shouldn't have said, "the local MX" of course, but rather the "local
MX list."

But there is always one *primary* MX, isn't there?

- Toralf