On 2012-10-13 at 12:41 +0100, Jonathan White wrote: > When I run a debug it looks like Exim is trying to perform a DNS > lookup of 127.0.0.1
> Eventually the lookup times out and the mail is sent. What's correct > way to resolve the issue? Is there further lookups to disable or can > exim resolve 127.0.0.1 via another method other than a DNS server? Put it in /etc/hosts. That _should_ work. Note that part of the issue here is that Exim assumes it can resolve the local hostname. "@" is Exim for "the hostname of the host that I'm running on". If you keep hitting DNS issues on the appliance, you might consider something like dnsmasq -- it's a server designed to be very small, for use on home routers where memory is tight. You can configure it with appropriate dummy data. (Note that /etc/hosts is not normally a good solution for DNS issues, just a way to store up issues for later, but I tend to believe that localhost and the hostname of the machine itself should be in /etc/hosts, so that basic self-resolution can work without a network connection). -Phil -- ## List details at https://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/
