Re: [exim] Mailma3 integrations

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Author: Bill Cole
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To: Sherin A via Exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Mailma3 integrations
On 2021-10-31 at 13:36:24 UTC-0400 (Sun, 31 Oct 2021 23:06:24 +0530)
Sherin A via Exim-users <sherinmon@???>
is rumored to have said:

> Hello,
>
>  The localhost usually don't have dns. It only have the ip entry in /etc/hosts file which is not resolved by the resolver in /etc/resolv.conf  . I changed  it to  Ip instead of localhost and exim is delivering emails.
>
> if we can setup a reverse look up exclude for host localhost , it will be nice.


That should never be needed. If your system name resolution config (i.e. traditionally nsswitch.conf, /etc/hosts, and /etc/resolv.conf) does not let you resolve 'localhost' to 127.0.0.1 and/or ::1 (with symmetric reverse lookups) then you have a broken system name resolution config.

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