Re: Host name question

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Author: Mark Baker
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To: John Henders
CC: Exim Email List
Subject: Re: Host name question
On Thu, 19 Jun 1997, John Henders wrote:

> > I'm occasionally getting (spam) messages which produce headers such as
> > the following
>
> This looks like a problem with someone's (your?) resolver and demon's
> wildcard MX for *.demon.co.uk.


Demon's wildcard causes lots of problems, but I don't think this is one of
them---we sometimes see spam with from addresses in cam.ac.uk here.

The problem is just that the spammers are using unqualified addresses and
exim is assuming they are local and qualifying them accordingly.