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in domain dnscheck, also check for hostname of mail server resolving to a loopback ip

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nowadays the quickstart will warn about this, but it may be missed/ignored. and
users that installed mox a few versions ago never got the warning. so now we
keep warning about it in the dns check.

based on feedback from Mendel on slack, thanks!
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Mechiel Lukkien 2023-07-24 09:23:41 +02:00
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@ -536,6 +536,16 @@ func checkDomain(ctx context.Context, resolver dns.Resolver, dialer *net.Dialer,
}
r.IPRev.IPNames[ip] = addrs
}
// Linux machines are often initially set up with a loopback IP for the hostname in
// /etc/hosts, presumably because it isn't known if their external IPs are static.
// For mail servers, they should certainly be static. The quickstart would also
// have warned about this, but could have been missed/ignored.
for _, ip := range ips {
if ip.IsLoopback() {
addf(&r.IPRev.Errors, "Hostname %s resolves to loopback IP %s, this will likely prevent email delivery to local accounts from working. The loopback IP was probably configured in /etc/hosts at system installation time. Replace the loopback IP with your actual external IPs in /etc/hosts.", mox.Conf.Static.HostnameDomain, ip.String())
}
}
}()
// MX