Mark Constable wrote:
> On Tuesday 16 March 2010 23:37:57 Bowie Bailey wrote:
>   
>> Mark Constable wrote:
>>     
>>> I have a situation where a large company is sending out bulk
>>> (legit) invoices from an internal host without a DNS record
>>> that get dropped at our front SMTP door.
>>>
>>>  Mar 16 11:05:58 mail courieresmtpd: error,
>>>  relay=::ffff:216.82.249.131,from=<[email protected]>:
>>>  517-Domain does not exist: sapgm0.domain.com.
>>>
>>> The messages come through a MessageLabs cluster so I can't
>>> rely on a single IP to allow smtpaccess relaying...
>>>
>>>  131.249.82.216.in-addr.arpa. 67927 IN PTR mail28.messagelabs.com.
>>>
>>> I don't want to open up relaying to all MessageLabs servers so
>>> can anyone suggest a "trick" to let this single host through?
>>>       
>> Add a DNS entry for sapgm0.domain.com.  Or change the envelope From
>> address to use a legitimate domain.
>>     
>
> I have absolutely no control over the generation of the message
> headers or the DNS for domain.com.
>
> Apparently the 2nd option can never happen and the first option
> is underway but the origanisation is so large it will take months
> to add a DNS record for this host, or so I've been told, hence I
> am looking for anything I can do in the mean time so these emails
> can still get through to my clients.
>   

You can set "BOFHCHECKDNS=0" in the esmtpd file to prevent DNS checks on
the From address.  You may also be able to set this on a per-ip basis in
the smtpaccess file, but I'm not sure about that.

-- 
Bowie

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