Nigel Metheringham wrote:
> 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.
>
ok thanks lads, its an SEP then.
:)
Ronan
