Oops... blush... Thanks for pointing this out. I will fire up dig and
complain to Mobil.
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Alan Thew alan.thew@???
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On Mon, 20 Oct 1997, John Henders wrote:
>
> 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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