Hi Phil,
when I try
exim -bt [email protected]
I get
R: smarthost for [email protected]
[email protected]
router = smarthost, transport = remote_smtp_smarthost
host x.x.x.x [x.x.x.x]
(the server is intended as a filter in front of our main mail server)
Thanks for your help!
Nico
with kind regards,
Nico De Ranter
Senior System Administrator
Technology and Software Centre Europe
Sony Belgium, bijkantoor van Sony Europe Limited.
Da Vincilaan 7-D1 · B-1935 Zaventem · Belgium
Phone:
+32 (0)2 700 8641
Fax:
+32 (0)2 700 8622
E-mail:
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Kingdom
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Phil Pennock [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: 24 August 2011 10:38
> To: De Ranter, Nico
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [exim] Blocking names from name@ip-address
>
> On 2011-08-23 at 12:41 +0100, De Ranter, Nico wrote:
> > I'm receiving a large number of spam messages from addresses of the form
> > name@ip-address. I'm already blocking addresses of the form
> > @[ip-address] using 'allow_domain_literals=false' but this doesn't seem
> > to stop @ip-address.
>
> As long as you have "verify = sender", there needs to be a Router which
> handles the address in question (provided that your ACLs aren't
> accepting the message before you hit that clause).
>
> So what do you get from:
> $ exim -bt name@ip-address
> ?
>
> You want to see something like:
> $ exim -bt [email protected]
> [email protected] is undeliverable: Unrouteable address
>
> If you get a response which includes "router = foo", what is the
> definition of foo?
>
> If it's dnslookup, then I think you have a resolver doing something
> funny, faking up A records when the query looks like an IP address.
>
> Regards,
> -Phil
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