[Mimedefang] MX -> 127.0.0.1

Joseph Brennan brennan at columbia.edu
Mon Sep 12 10:04:03 EDT 2005


> Also does this actually do the MX lookup?  The ones I'm getting
> have reasonable looking names and you don't see the problem
> until you follow the MX record and find the IP address is
> 127.0.0.1, 0.0.0.0 or something equally crazy.  I have
> sendmail set to reject if the sending domain doesn't resolve,
> but it doesn't care about the IP value.


No, we don't look up the mx record (yet?!).  That's a good point.

Joseph Brennan
Columbia University Information Technology






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