Re: [exim] Host lookup does not complete

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Author: Dave Evans
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Host lookup does not complete
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 03:46:45PM -0600, Vadnais, Kevin wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm having an issue where an errant email address to a bogus domain (
> gmail.ca) does not reject the message, but gives a temporary rejection
> message instead.
>
> Is this some kind of DNS issue? Is there a convenient way to reject all
> gmail.ca addresses. I'd rather not do that as it seems like a horrible way
> of dealing with what seems like a more systemic issue.


Yes - the nameservers for gmail.ca (namely, dns1.emarkmonitor.com and
dns2.emarkmonitor.com) are lame.

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Dave Evans
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