On Thu, 03 Feb 2011 16:17:55 +0100 Manuel Dalla Lana wrote:
> Hello to everyone,
> I've an Exim 4.69 installation on a Centos 4.8 system and I'm trying to
> solve this problem: one of the domain I try to send mail to has a wrong
> DNS configuration:
>
> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> ledeco.it. 83564 IN MX 20 94.23.65.247.
>
> the MX record is an IP, with an extra trailing dot at the end of it,
> resulting in exim to fail (correctly) to send mail to it.
>
> The right thing to do is to contact the syadmin of the dns server and
> correct this error, but it is not possible (as they say...), so there is
> any way to modify exim mx resolution to strip the extra dot if the MX
> record is an ip address and not a FQDN with out editing the sources and
> recompiling exim?
I guess you want to use the option "allow_mx_to_ip".
--Frank elsner
