On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 16:05 +0100, Philip Hazel wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Jun 2006, Ronan McGlue wrote:
>
> > and also running exim -bt user.blah@??? on the MTA gives me
> > user.blah@???
> > router = dnslookup, transport = remote_smtp
> > host 194.46.34.90 [unknown] MX=10 ** unusable **
> > host expint.nipsa.org.uk [213.121.182.66] MX=20
>
> This shows that nipsa.org.uk has these MX records:
>
> nipsa.org.uk. MX 10 194.46.34.90.
> nipsa.org.uk. MX 20 expint.nipsa.org.uk.
>
> The first of these is invalid. The righthand side of an MX record MUST
> be a DOMAIN, not an IP address. That's why Exim can't use it. But that's
> probably only peripheral to the overall problem.
The second one has some *really* funky routing and is probably never
accessible... so the last message you sent there failed, and there is
still info in the hints database about it - see the delay_after_cutoff
option, and here
http://www.exim.org/exim-html-4.62/doc/html/spec_html/ch32.html#id2654672
Nigel.
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