EXIM: Acceptance of domain literals

[auricom]

Hello,

I'm not very familiar with exim, but do you know how to configure EXIM to accept domain literals ?

I mean mail in this format: [email protected]

Thanks for help,

 

[skruf]

Hey,

There's two places you have to change...

In the current exim.conf this is there:

allow_domain_literals=false

It should be changed... I think that you can just take off the =false part and it'll work. But, might have to set it to =true, at least one of those should work.

Also, this section needs to be uncommented, it's in the Routers section:

# domain_literal:
# driver = ipliteral
# domains = ! +local_domains
# transport = remote_smtp

I think that's all you have to do.

David

 

[auricom]

Hi skruf,

Thanks for the reply, but unfortunately, it doesn't work
www.dnsreport.com tool still report that my mailservers do not accept mail in the domain literal format.

mmmmh... the EXIM documentation doesn't give more details (http://www.exim.org/exim-html-4.20/doc/html/spec_17.html#CHAP17).

Anyway thanks for help !

 

[skruf]

Hey,

Looking at DA's default xim.conf it appears you may have to uncomment this option as well:

# local_domains_include_host_literals

and, maybe add "= true" to it after uncommenting it.

Perhaps that'll do it...

David

 

[nobaloney]

From the sample exim.conf file provided by exim:

If you want to accept mail
addressed to your host's literal IP address, for example, mail addressed to
"user@[192.168.23.44]", you can add "@[]" as an item in the local domains
list. You also need to uncomment "allow_domain_literals" below. This is not
recommended for today's Internet.

Jeff