On 2021-11-19, russellbell--- via Exim-users <[email protected]> wrote:
> 'IP addresses are not domain names. > Yes. I meant to say that it's a valid address. ok > 'They can not have MX records.' > Why not? If an SMTP server at the address handles mail... then it dosn't need an MX record. > 'If there is any domain name that has an A record pointing to > 123.456.789.012, it is likely to work much more often than using the > IP address directly, even if it has no MX record.' > There is an A record, but there's also an MX record that > points to our mail server, a Microsoft Outlook thing: mail sent to it > won't arrive at the target server. one way to avoid the need for ip literals is to make another MX record (on a sub-domain) that points to the A record for this IP > Quoth Jasen Betts: 'You probably need to configure > [123.456.789.012] as one of the domains that exim accepts for. > In host_accept_relay ? could be local_domains (depending on how different your config is) > 'you may need to enable IP literal domains too.' > Does local_domains_include_host_literals do this? Exim documetation says: allow_domain_literals, I don't know where that one comes from. -- Jasen. -- ## 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/
