Hi, I may have posted this at one point in the past, but I have a feature request for host lists and I'm wondering if it would benefit others.
I maintain an emergency whitelist of sorts that contains IP addresses of hosts that need to completely bypass all spam/sanity checks using a regular Exim hostlist file, as in: hostlist whitelist = EXIMDIR/whitelist accept hosts = +whitelist Here's the feature request. If I put in a hostname (instead of IP address), Exim will stop processing the entire hostlist file if it fails to look up a single hostname in that file due to a temporary DNS lookup failure. This can happen if the remote DNS servers are misconfigured (i.e. lame delegations) or if the remote site is having problems. Thing is, for a whitelist, I don't really care, and would prefer to be able to add: +ignore_defer or something around the host names in that file. Perhaps it should be called +ignore_again to match DNS terminology, or +ignore_errors to indicate its ignoring *all* dns errors, rather than just permanent failures. You wouldn't want to use that option for configuration host files or any other important list of hosts, but for something like this, it makes perfect sense. P.S. I know that reverse DNS hostnames can be spoofed, but with a whitelist like this, I'm not concerned. It's just too difficult to always track all the remote IP addresses associated with a domain or hostname. -- Dean Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
