I have a DA server, with Exim, and just and only IPV4 network.
Everything works fine, but for sending email to users of a provider that decided to use a very strange configuration for his email servers
email service for example.com will be configured, i.e., as follows:
10 m-53b.th.seeweb.it {No A Record}
10 m-53b.th.seeweb.it 2001:4b78:1001:0:25::530a
20 smtp-avas-th.seeweb.it 217.194.8.27
20 smtp-avas-th.seeweb.it 2001:4b78:1:20::27
So:
- a first MX (priority: 10), that is just and only IPV6
- a secondary MX (priority: 20) that is IPV4 and IPV6
(If you're wondering "why so?", the answer is: they hope that, doing so, "good boys email server" will switch on secondary MX, while "bad boys email server" will try only on main server with IPV4, will got an error, and so they'll win against spammers.)
The result is that my (full legit) email server is not able to send emails to any domain with that configuration, because any send fails with a 5.0.0 error
(I guess that exim look for A record of m-53b.th.seeweb.it and, not finding a valid A record, give up without switching to the secondary server; I read again rfc5321, but found anything useful about this situation...)
So, the question is: is somehow being possible to configure DA in order to switch to secondary server in such a situation (main server that is not unrecheable or give not any error, but has simply no A record defined?)
BTW: do you know any other provider using such a configuration?
Everything works fine, but for sending email to users of a provider that decided to use a very strange configuration for his email servers
email service for example.com will be configured, i.e., as follows:
10 m-53b.th.seeweb.it {No A Record}
10 m-53b.th.seeweb.it 2001:4b78:1001:0:25::530a
20 smtp-avas-th.seeweb.it 217.194.8.27
20 smtp-avas-th.seeweb.it 2001:4b78:1:20::27
So:
- a first MX (priority: 10), that is just and only IPV6
- a secondary MX (priority: 20) that is IPV4 and IPV6
(If you're wondering "why so?", the answer is: they hope that, doing so, "good boys email server" will switch on secondary MX, while "bad boys email server" will try only on main server with IPV4, will got an error, and so they'll win against spammers.)
The result is that my (full legit) email server is not able to send emails to any domain with that configuration, because any send fails with a 5.0.0 error
(I guess that exim look for A record of m-53b.th.seeweb.it and, not finding a valid A record, give up without switching to the secondary server; I read again rfc5321, but found anything useful about this situation...)
So, the question is: is somehow being possible to configure DA in order to switch to secondary server in such a situation (main server that is not unrecheable or give not any error, but has simply no A record defined?)
BTW: do you know any other provider using such a configuration?