On Mon, 26 May 1997, John Henders wrote:
> I've noticed occasionally that sites are managing to get mail through my
> machines even though the network is listed in my reject list. Here is an
> example. Has anyone else seen this. I thought I had it set up correctly.
>
> First in configuration, I have these lines.
>
> sender_host_reject = *@partial-lsearch;/opt/exim/etc/reject.hosts
> sender_host_reject_relay = *@partial-lsearch;/opt/exim/etc/reject.hosts
> sender_reject_recipients = partial-lsearch;/opt/exim/etc/reject.hosts
>
> ispam.net is in the reject.hosts file. Yet here is an example I think
> should have been caught by this but wasn't.
>
> 1997-05-26 18:57:41 0wWBW8-0006If-00 <= jim@???
> H=relay5.ispam.net [207.124.161.54] U=root P=smtp S=2633
Is "*.ispam.net" in the reject.hosts file? The partial match won't
trigger for "relay5.ispam.net" otherwise.
Philip
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