Re: gratuitous administrative rejections?

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Richard Welty
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: gratuitous administrative rejections?
On Mon, 15 Sep 1997, Richard Welty wrote:

> 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.)


I am going to provide an option to stop Exim rejecting when it can't do
a reverse lookup, for those that want to live dangerously.

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Philip Hazel                   University Computing Service,
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