Re: [EXIM] Dealing with pathological sender

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Author: Jeffrey Goldberg
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To: Mark Spruiell
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [EXIM] Dealing with pathological sender
On Thu, 4 Mar 1999, Mark Spruiell wrote:

> * Exim rejects an SMTP connection because reverse DNS fails
> * Sender immediately retries; depending on network distance, this
> could be every few seconds, or several times per second
> * Exim logs fill up with reject messages


If you are using sender_host_reject, you might try using
sender_host_reject_recipient instead. That gives the rejection a little
bit later (after rcpt to) which more sites will respect.

I suspect that there are other ways of dealing with that which other
people will be able to advise you on.

-j

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