On 04/09/16 20:44, Viktor Dukhovni wrote:
> On Sep 3, 2016, at 10:22 AM, Jeremy Harris <[email protected]> wrote:
>> If you do SRV lookups (via the dnslookup router check_srv option)
>> you'll get the port given by that.
> 
> I am not aware of any RFC that specifies that MTAs should use SRV
> records to locate the nexthop SMTP server when such SRV records are
> present.

Careful wording there, with "should" :)

For "may", I reference

RFC2782 section "The format of the SRV RR" para "Service"
and
STD 2 (RFC 1700) section "PROTOCOL AND SERVICE NAMES".


I wasn't trying to imply that doing it is normal practice, and Exim's
default is not to.
-- 
Jeremy


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