Re: [exim] Exim trying to send email to A record of recipien…

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Author: Jasen Betts
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Exim trying to send email to A record of recipient domain
On 2016-02-11, Graeme Fowler <graeme@???> wrote:
>
> On 11 Feb 2016, at 08:26, Konstantin Boyandin <lists@???> wrote:
> Can the above Exim behaviour be changed? If MX entries fail to resolve,
> I would rather expect Exim delay the delivery until DNS returns to
> normal functioning. Sending to A is anyway senseless in many cases. Or,
> as alternative, add a parameter - host name to fallback if DNS
> resolution fails.
>
> http://www.exim.org/exim-html-current/doc/html/spec_html/ch-the_dnslookup_router.html
>
> See ‘mx_domains’ and related options.


anyone can query the root servers, just install bind with the default
configuration and point resolv.conf at localhost. then you won't have
to deal with other people's broken DNS forwarders.

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