> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dean Brooks > Sent: Monday, January 14, 2008 12:25 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [exim] Erroneous unroutable address error > > On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 12:10:22PM -0600, Craig Jackson wrote: > > > I am trying to send an email to willingham-law.com which > clearly has a > > DNS lookup for mx. But all my email to that domain is > bounced by Exim > > 4.67 with "unroutable address". Exim has obviously given up for some > > reason. How can I force it to do the proper lookup? > > The domain name willingham-law.com does not have its MX records > configured properly. They have used an IP address instead of a host > name in the host field of the MX record. By default, Exim will not > deliver to a host that has its DNS misconfigured like this. > > If you really want to deliver to hosts like this, despite the > misconfiguration, you can add "allow_mx_to_ip" to your Exim > config file. > > -- > Dean Brooks > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
Thanks for this reply. It worked. Unfortunately willingham-law.com has no postmaster account. My notice of this issue to postmaster bounced. -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
