Ugh, sorry, replied to the wrong message. My bad. Ignore it. ...Todd
On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 8:27 AM, Todd Lyons <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 2:49 AM, Paul Walsh <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> acl_smtp_rcpt I have the following: >> accept hosts = +relay_hosts >> # >> # If we've got this far it means the source and recipient are outside >> our control >> # and thus someone is trying to use us as a relay. >> # >> deny message = relay not permitted >> This is all fine and dandy until the entry for one of the hosts in >> relay_hosts is deleted from DNS. As Exim works its way through the >> list to verify if a sending host is allowed to relay mail, it hits the >> entry for the now defunct host, tries a forward DNS lookup to get an >> IP address to compare with that of the sending host and, because the >> lookup fails, immediately considers the sending host to not be in the >> list thus causing delivery to fail with the "relay not permitted" >> message. Unfortunately, any attempt to relay mail by a host in the >> list after the defunct host also results in a "relay not permitted" >> rejection. >> I'm trying to determine if it's possible to have Exim parse the entire >> list, only rejecting if the sending IP address didn't match any of >> those returned by looking up each host, or at the very least flag up >> some sort of warning that the host list contains addresses that can't >> be resolved. >> Thoughts? > > Read all three messages in this thread: > > https://lists.exim.org/lurker/message/20130816.094929.4afff885.hu.html > > ...Todd > -- > The total budget at all receivers for solving senders' problems is $0. > If you want them to accept your mail and manage it the way you want, > send it the way the spec says to. --John Levine -- The total budget at all receivers for solving senders' problems is $0. If you want them to accept your mail and manage it the way you want, send it the way the spec says to. --John Levine -- ## List details at https://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/
