On Wed, 13 Jan 1999 nbecker@??? wrote:
> I'm currently using exim-2.10 with fetchmail-4.5.8. I'd like to use
> the rbl on exim, but will it work? Do I need to configure fetchmail
> any particular way? (As far as exim knows, all mail is coming from
> 127.0.01. Will it check the source address against rbl? Or will it
> check the From: header?)
The point of the RBL is to keep messages from black-listed hosts out of
your machine. If you are using fetchmail, you have got the messages into
your machine before you approach Exim. That kind of defeats the purpose
of the RBL. Having said that, I suppose if you were only going to use it
in checking mode, there might be something to be said for looking at the
Received headers. However, the "right" way to do this would be for the
host from which you fetchmail to do the RBL checking and insert some
kind of warning header for you to test, as Exim does if you run RBL
checks in warning mode.
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