I would (if it was my user) have the correspondant on my end call the correspondant at the other end, and ask them to escalate it to their IT staff.
/goes back to conf call On Thu, 3 Feb 2011, Manuel Dalla Lana wrote: > Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2011 10:17:55 > From: Manuel Dalla Lana <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: [exim] Resolv mx with problematic DNS record > > Hello to everyone, > I've an Exim 4.69 installation on a Centos 4.8 system and I'm trying to > solve this problem: one of the domain I try to send mail to has a wrong > DNS configuration: > > ;; ANSWER SECTION: > ledeco.it. 83564 IN MX 20 94.23.65.247. > > the MX record is an IP, with an extra trailing dot at the end of it, > resulting in exim to fail (correctly) to send mail to it. > > The right thing to do is to contact the syadmin of the dns server and > correct this error, but it is not possible (as they say...), so there is > any way to modify exim mx resolution to strip the extra dot if the MX > record is an ip address and not a FQDN with out editing the sources and > recompiling exim? > > I've other 3 domains with the same wrong configuration. > > Thank you very much for your help! > > Best Regards, > Manuel > > -- -------------------------------------------------------- Dave Lugo [email protected] No spam, thanks. Are you the police? . . . No ma'am, we're sysadmins. -------------------------------------------------------- -- ## 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/
