Re: [EXIM] Dealing with pathological sender

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Author: Philip Hazel
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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:

> However, I'm not completely sure what the right Exim incantation is to
> accept a connection from an IP address (for which reverse DNS fails)


Check out +allow_unknown in section 7.15.

> and direct all messages to a file.


That you would have to do by setting up a special director or router or
something in a system filter. You could detect that the DNS lookup had
failed by the fact that $sender_host_name is empty.

-- 
Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service,
ph10@???      Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714.



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