Treat local mail as remote

[thoroughfare]

Hello,

I'm not sure if this has been covered befor e but I searched and can't find an answer.

One of my customers is a friend of mine whom I email regularly. The domain name that their account is registered for is the same one that I use to email them. However, because they don't use their account for email, any emails I send through the server come back as '503 User not found'.

How do I get exim to query DNS for all local emails?

Many thanks,
Matt

 

[nobaloney]

How do I get exim to query DNS for all local emails?

For specific domains:

As admin turn on DNS control for those domains if it's not already turned on.

Then log into the domain, and click on MX Records and follow the instructions there.

Then you can turn off the DNS Control again, as admin, if you don't want the users to have it.

Jeff

 

[thoroughfare]

Hi Jeff,

Thanks but I'm not sure you understood my post. The user does not have his nameservers set to my server, so I need exim to lookup the MX record when sending emails to the user, rather than assuming that the email is local.

Best regards,
Matt

 

[nobaloney]

You should still do exactly what I said.

If your /etc/resolv.conf file doesn't point to your local server then you don't have to change the MX record, but in any event it doesn't hurt.

And you should still follow the rest of those instructions.

Jeff