Oops. Yes the filters are on mail1.toronto.istar.net. They're on wu too
but I know they won't matter there for relayed mail.
On Wed, Mar 11/98, "Dave C." <djc@???> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, John Henders wrote:
>
> > Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 10:14:34 -0800
> > From: John Henders <jhenders@???>
> > To: exim-users@???
> > Subject: [EXIM] sender_host_reject_recipients again
> >
> > I've got the following in configure.
> >
> > sender_host_reject_recipients = "+allow_unknown:dbm;/opt/exim/etc/reject.hosts"
> >
> > And the reject.hosts database is built with the following lines.
> >
> > *.ms.uu.net
> > *.da.uu.net
> > *.dial.ans.net
> > *cust*.uu.net
> > *.pub-ip.psi.net
> > *-ts-*.dialsprint.net
> > *pool*.grid.net
> > *dialup*.mci.net
> > *.dial-access.att.net
> >
> > Yet this arrived today.
> >
> > >From dump142@??? Wed Mar 11 08:44:26 1998
> > Received: from mail1.toronto.istar.net [209.89.75.17]
> > by wu.bogon.com with smtp (Exim 1.890 #4)
> > id 0yCocD-0003Xk-00; Wed, 11 Mar 1998 08:44:26 -0800
> > Received: from vip by mail1.toronto.istar.net with local (Exim 1.80 #5)
> > id 0yCoeS-0004Gl-00; Wed, 11 Mar 1998 11:46:44 -0500
> > Received: from 224.chicago-11.il.dial-access.att.net (12.66.115.224)
> > [12.66.115.224]
> > by mail1.toronto.istar.net with smtp (Exim 1.80 #5)
> > id 0yCock-0003gP-00; Wed, 11 Mar 1998 11:44:59 -0500
> > From: dump142@???
> >
>
>
> You didnt say which host the config items you reference are set in.
>
> If they are in only wu.bogon.com, then the reason is that this message
> was delivered to your server by mail1.toronto.istar.net, not by the
> att.net host. Exim doesn't try to interpret the Received: lines that
> were inserted by hosts that previously handled the message, nor can it.
>
> (Although I suppose it might be able to interpret some standard header
> inserted by other Exim systems)
>
> If the configs you reference are on "mail1.toronto.istar.net", then
> disregard this message, I'm not sure how it got thru but someone else
> probably does.
>
>
> >
> > So my question is, why? How did it get through. Are the leading
> > wildcards not needed in a dbm lookup? Should I be using partial-dbm?
> > I should know this by now but I still find myself a bit confused on how
> > exactly this works.
> >
>
>
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