Re: Exim bites...

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Author: John Henders
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Subject: Re: Exim bites...

On Mon, Oct 20/97, Alan Thew <Alan.Thew@???> wrote:
>
> The mail was refused with:
> 1997-10-20 12:16:03 0xNFjo-0000I3-00 rejected from lag.mobil.com [158.21.131.10]
> : cannot route to sender <XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX/LAG1_opabifar//US/MOBIL/BB2@laghp001.
> lag.mobil.com>
>
> Since I know there is at least one admin for Openmail on list, what should I
> change to allow this in without allowing in all sorts of trash?


Exim isn't blocking this because of the ugliness of the address, it's
blocking it because laghp001.lag.mobil.com isn't in DNS.

$ dig laghp001.lag.mobil.com any

; <<>> DiG 2.2 <<>> laghp001.lag.mobil.com any
;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
;; got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 6
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; Ques: 1, Ans: 0, Auth: 1, Addit: 0
;; QUESTIONS:
;;      laghp001.lag.mobil.com, type = ANY, class = IN


;; AUTHORITY RECORDS:
mobil.com.  86400 SOA pegasus.mobil.com. root.pegasus.mobil.com. (
                        970720143       ; serial
                        10800   ; refresh (3 hours)
                        3600    ; retry (1 hour)
                        604800  ; expire (7 days)
                        86400 ) ; minimum (1 day)



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