Re: Blocked mail from failed reverse

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Author: Tom
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To: Ned Schumann
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: Blocked mail from failed reverse

On Thu, 23 Oct 1997, Ned Schumann wrote:

> A week ago I upgraded from 1.62 to 1.71. The consequence is that I'm now
> facing a barrage of mail like...
>
> "A common robot that sends me mail (it should) is "support@???". It
> usually sends me daily updates and news alerts. I've gotten nothing from
> them since last week. Also I usually get information from other places
> because I'm always sending questions to Accutrade, Ameritrade, Waterhouse,
> and a bunch of strange "news" sources. I haven't received any mail from
> anyone except you, a friend on olympus.net, and a returned message from
> olympus.net since last Friday!"
>
> The consequence is that my work has now shifted to explaining the reverse
> name issue to other sites as well as their customers and mine. This is a
> terrific burden.


You probably want to take a look at the helo_verify* options. They are
setup by default in the 1.73 default config file.

Strangely, I don't have many problems with this.

Tom


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