> Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 09:38:18 +0100 (BST)
> From: Philip Hazel <ph10@???>
> To: Richard Welty <welty@???>
> Cc: exim-users@???
> Subject: Re: gratuitous administrative rejections?
> On Sat, 13 Sep 1997, Richard Welty wrote:
> > > <<< 550 rejected: administrative prohibition
> > i'm very puzzled by this behavior; i can't see why exim rejected just
> > the one out of a set of nearly identical welcome messages to the same
> > address.
> Have a look at your exim/log/rejectlog to get more information on why it
> rejected the message. The 550 message is deliberately bland.
the rejection was based on the host; i guess it was a failed reverse
DNS lookup for 199.181.141.25, as it was the first attempt by
mailgate.wizvax.net [199.181.141.25] to deliver mail; the subsequent
deliveries succeeded, presumably because the DNS info finally showed
up. i hadn't yet changed the boolean flag in the call to
verify_check_host from TRUE to FALSE (which i'd done on the two
systems i'd converted to 1.70.)
from mainlog, we see that the first delivery attempt from
199.181.141.25 is rejected; and the second one succeeds; i've
omitted the other successful ones that followed, as they're all
pretty much the same:
1997-09-14 04:30:51 recipients from [199.181.141.25] (majordom)
refused (host)
1997-09-14 04:30:56 0xAA52-0001oc-00
<=owner-alfa-digest@??? H =mailgate.wizvax.net
[199.181.141.25] U=majordom P=esmtp S=5882 id=199709132029
.QAA17859@??? 1997-09-14 04:30:56 0xAA52-0001oc-00 =>
rwelty <rwelty@???> D=localuser T=local_delivery
1997-09-14 04:30:56 0xAA52-0001oc-00 Completed
richard
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