I would (if it was my user) have the correspondant
on my end call the correspondant at the other end,
and ask them to escalate it to their IT staff.
/goes back to conf call
On Thu, 3 Feb 2011, Manuel Dalla Lana wrote:
> Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2011 10:17:55
> From: Manuel Dalla Lana <endelwar@???>
> To: exim-users@???
> Subject: [exim] Resolv mx with problematic DNS record
>
> 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've other 3 domains with the same wrong configuration.
>
> Thank you very much for your help!
>
> Best Regards,
> Manuel
>
>
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