Re: gratuitous administrative rejections?

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Author: Sean Witham
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To: Philip Hazel
CC: Richard Welty, exim-users
Subject: Re: gratuitous administrative rejections?


How about an option to freeze mail so that in situations of reverse
lookup problems the email will wait until the lookup succedes or
it expires according to configurations.

--Sean


On Tue, 16 Sep 1997, Philip Hazel wrote:

> 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.
>
> -- 
> Philip Hazel                   University Computing Service,
> ph10@???             New Museums Site, Cambridge CB2 3QG,
> P.Hazel@???          England.  Phone: +44 1223 334714

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