Re: [exim] Email DNS Issue

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Author: Matt
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Subject: Re: [exim] Email DNS Issue
> I seem to be repeating myself a lot today... what 'verify = sender'
> does is runs the sender address through the configured routers in your
> config, to see if the address would be routeable.


> Since it doesn't
> call the transports, it doesn't do any SMTP. For addresses which would


That clears it up. Calls routers but not transports.

> be remotely routed, this probably will involve DNS lookups.
>
> Exim uses your system's resolver library to do DNS lookups - you may
> be able to persuade the resolver to use files instead of DNS queries
> but this is outside of Exim.


In resolvr.conf I just have 127.0.0.1 and am running bind 9.2.4 now.
Does it just do a dig mx and if answer is not 0 call it good or does
it do more then that?

Matt