Re: [exim] Picking domains from the table

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Author: Ian Eiloart
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To: Drav Sloan, exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Picking domains from the table


--On 27 February 2008 15:07:18 +0000 Drav Sloan <holborn-exim@???>
wrote:

> Nitin Gupta wrote:
>> Hi Drav/everybody
>> Thanks for replying..my problem is that i have some domains in my table
>> and i want that exim should pick domains from my table only.now when i
>> test
>>
>> exim -v nitin@???
>> from:nitin@???
>> to:nitin@???
>> subject:test
>> test


Please use "example.com" which is reserved for these purposes.

>>
>> This says completed
>> where as i dnt have test.com in my table.It should accept domains aonly
>> which i have in my table
>
> Exim here is not delivering the email locally, but to the remote
> domain "test.com". If you use it on the command line in that form,
> it will go past the routers that handle your domains in the delivery
> process and hit the "dnslookup" type router (where DNS for
> the host is looked up and delivered to remotely).
>
> You can verify this (without having to send a test email) with:
>
> $ exim -bt nitin@???
> nitin@???
> router = dnslookup, transport = remote_smtp
> host test.com [64.214.163.132]
>
> If you only want mail inbound to your server, and NOT for dnslookup
> type routing then you will need to remove/comment out the dnslookup
> router.
>
> Regards
>
> Drav.




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Ian Eiloart
IT Services, University of Sussex
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