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

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Autor: Toralf Lund
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Assumpte: Re: [exim] How to get the local MX? (And domain?)
David Brodbeck wrote:

>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Tony Finch [mailto:dot@dotat.at]
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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.
>>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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>Also, if the goal is to find somewhere to relay mail through,
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Yes, I was sort of wondering how that may be done.

> the MX host
>may not be the same machine as the smarthost.
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But then again, it may be, so why not try it? I wasn't necessarily
thinking about listing *only* the MX(es); Exim will attempt to relay
through all hosts in the routers list, won't it?

But perhaps you know a *good* way of finding a smarthost?

> In fact, for a large ISP, it
>probably isn't. The smarthost may not even be *in* the same domain. (It
>isn't for my SBC DSL account.)
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