Quoth Gedalya: 'That is not normally done.'
I know. I'm in a pinch.
'If you want to use an IP address it would normally be
fred@??? - the IP address goes in square brackets.'
My MTA (gmail) rejects the square-bracketed form; without them
the message gets to the target server.
'You can configure exim to accept mail sent to a particular IP
address and translate that to a domain but I can only guess you don't
really want to go through that trouble.'
Sounds good to me.
'IP addresses are not domain names.
Yes. I meant to say that it's a valid address.
'They can not have MX records.'
Why not? If an SMTP server at the address handles mail...
'If there is any domain name that has an A record pointing to
123.456.789.012, it is likely to work much more often than using the
IP address directly, even if it has no MX record.'
There is an A record, but there's also an MX record that
points to our mail server, a Microsoft Outlook thing: mail sent to it
won't arrive at the target server.
'Is fred a local user?'
Yes. He gets messages (local) every day.
'It would be a matter of setting up 123.456.789.012 as a local
domain.'
I added it to 'local_domains'.
Quoth Jasen Betts: 'You probably need to configure
[123.456.789.012] as one of the domains that exim accepts for.
In host_accept_relay ?
'you may need to enable IP literal domains too.'
Does local_domains_include_host_literals do this?
russell bell
