Author: Ian Eiloart Date: To: lists@boyandin.info CC: exim-users@exim.org Subject: Re: [exim] Exim trying to send email to A record of recipient domain
> On 9 Feb 2016, at 14:29, Konstantin Boyandin <lists@???> wrote:
>
>> MX records must contain names, resolvable to ip addresses.
>
> They do. I also checked that
> - all the nameservers return the same MX record
> - all the nameservers resolve MX record FQDN to the same IP address
> (different from A record for the domain)
This looks like a misunderstanding of the MX record. The MX record points from an email domain to a FQDN. The FQDN must have an A or AAAA record (and not a CNAME) which in turn resolves to an IP address. See http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5321#section-5.1
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