From: Mikkel L. Ellertson (mikkelinfinity-ltd.com)
Date: Wed Feb 01 2006 - 17:11:57 CST

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Wietse Venema wrote:
> Daniel Kaliel:
>
>>Ok, I have run through even the most simple configs to no avail.
>>
>>I have a postfix server setup as primary for domain <lists.mydomain.com> i
>>-n the alias file I have setup root to point to memydomain.com.
>>
>>I had main.cf setup to say relayhost = mydomain.com but that gets rejected
>>- with unable to relay. But further reading lead me to believe that by setti
>>-ng relayhost in main.cf it would tell postfix not to check the MX record via
>>- DNS.
>
>
> Please cite the exact documentation that says that Postfix
> NEVER looks up MX records for relayhost destinations.
>
> Wietse
>
# In the case of SMTP, specify a domain, host, host:port, [host]:port,
# [address] or [address]:port; the form [host] turns off MX lookups.

If I read that correctly, if you enclose the name or address in [ ],
then it does not look at MX records.

Mikkel
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