On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 16:05 +0100, Philip Hazel wrote: > On Wed, 21 Jun 2006, Ronan McGlue wrote: > > > and also running exim -bt [EMAIL PROTECTED] on the MTA gives me > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > router = dnslookup, transport = remote_smtp > > host 194.46.34.90 [unknown] MX=10 ** unusable ** > > host expint.nipsa.org.uk [213.121.182.66] MX=20 > > This shows that nipsa.org.uk has these MX records: > > nipsa.org.uk. MX 10 194.46.34.90. > nipsa.org.uk. MX 20 expint.nipsa.org.uk. > > The first of these is invalid. The righthand side of an MX record MUST > be a DOMAIN, not an IP address. That's why Exim can't use it. But that's > probably only peripheral to the overall problem.
The second one has some *really* funky routing and is probably never accessible... so the last message you sent there failed, and there is still info in the hints database about it - see the delay_after_cutoff option, and here http://www.exim.org/exim-html-4.62/doc/html/spec_html/ch32.html#id2654672 Nigel. -- [ Nigel Metheringham [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] [ - Comments in this message are my own and not ITO opinion/policy - ] -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
