Re: [exim] Erroneous unroutable address error

> -----Original Message-----
> From: exim-users-bounces@???
> [mailto:exim-users-bounces@exim.org] On Behalf Of Dean Brooks
> Sent: Monday, January 14, 2008 12:25 PM
> To: exim-users@???
> Subject: Re: [exim] Erroneous unroutable address error
>
> On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 12:10:22PM -0600, Craig Jackson wrote:
>
> > I am trying to send an email to willingham-law.com which
> clearly has a
> > DNS lookup for mx. But all my email to that domain is
> bounced by Exim
> > 4.67 with "unroutable address". Exim has obviously given up for some
> > reason. How can I force it to do the proper lookup?
>
> The domain name willingham-law.com does not have its MX records
> configured properly. They have used an IP address instead of a host
> name in the host field of the MX record. By default, Exim will not
> deliver to a host that has its DNS misconfigured like this.
>
> If you really want to deliver to hosts like this, despite the
> misconfiguration, you can add "allow_mx_to_ip" to your Exim
> config file.
>
> --
> Dean Brooks
> dean@???
>


Thanks for this reply. It worked. Unfortunately willingham-law.com has
no postmaster account. My notice of this issue to postmaster bounced.