Re: [EXIM] sender_host_reject

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Author: Pollywog
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To: Exim-users list
Subject: Re: [EXIM] sender_host_reject

On 12-Apr-99 Philip Hazel wrote:
> On Sun, 11 Apr 1999, Pollywog wrote:
>
>> Since I cannot have a sender_host_reject external file consisting of IP
>> addresses, is it possible to have two sender_host_reject lists and to have
>> Exim first search the non-external IP list and then search the external
>> textual host list?
>
> (1) You *can* have a sender_net_reject external file consisting of IP
> addresses (with masks, but the masks can be /32).

I know that sender_net_reject can be external and it works very well.
It is sender_host_reject that I had to either move to exim.conf or else remove
all the IP addresses from.

>
> (2) You can have a list of the form
>
>     sender_host_reject = 10.9.8.7 : 10.1.2.3 : lsearch;/some/list

Yes, that is true. I forgot about that.
>
> (3) This is all going to change in the next release. You will be able to
> have an external file containing IP addresses, and the host/net
> distinction will be abolished.


Very good :)

thanks

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Andrew

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