--On 30 October 2007 14:55:03 +0000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>> At present our Exim config does a lot of checking (btw this local mail >>> server is behind our company firewall and we are unable to use verify = >>> sender and verify = sender/callout as they are blocked) > >> You should be able to do verify=sender, since that's only using DNS. > > Probably, but I was asked to switch it off by our company network people > because of the traffic it generated. So, they prefer the spam?! Did you explain that a good proportion of the DNS request will result in a reduction of traffic? If they let you do callouts, about 60% of them could result in your being able to reject before you see the message body and headers? > > >> What are you running on the edge server? You should be doing your spam >> and virus filtering there, in Exim ACLs if you can. > > Don't know as I have absolutely no control over them - they are black > boxes to us. I think it safe to say that they are not running Exim. > > BTW it was one of the people who manages these edge servers that > suggested we drop our local domain and create a new one so that their > edge servers could be then be set up to block the old domain. Nutters! Name and shame them! > > Paul McIlfatrick -- Ian Eiloart IT Services, University of Sussex x3148 -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
