I guess I never thought about recipient name matching including wildcards...
That's the easy, obvious and logical way for this work... I assume that if
someone tries to send a message through my server to i.e.
postmaster@??? from an RBL'ed host, this will allow it through, but
then my relaying restrictions will stop it. I'll give it a try, thanks!
----- Original Message -----
From: Philip Hazel <ph10@???>
To: Kevin P. Fleming <kfleming@???>
Cc: <exim-users@???>
Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 1999 12:58 PM
Subject: Re: [EXIM] recipients_reject_except for all local/relay domains?
> On Wed, 7 Jul 1999, Kevin P. Fleming wrote:
>
> > Well, I was thinking of this occurring at the earlier level, like when
the
> > recipients would be rejected for RBL reasons, or because of other types
of
> > spam filtering. If I'm not mistaken, aren't all these things applied
prior
> > to any directors/routers getting run?
>
> Not if you turn on receiver_verify. Verification of an address consists
> of running it throught the directors and routers in "verify" mode.
> Recipients are verified as soon as the RCPT TO command is received in
> the SMTP dialogue.
>
> In other words, the directors/routers fulfil two different, but related
> functions. In their normal use they determine where to send the message
> for a given recipient. In their "verify" mode they are used to check
> whether senders or recipients are valid addresses. In simple cases,
> these involve exactly the same work, but you can make them different by
> means of various flags (verify, verify_only, fail_verify).
>
> > Basically I want to allow mail in to
> > postmaster@... even if the originating host is RBL'ed or a known
spammer,
> > but I'd like to not have to list all the domains I accept mail for in
the
> > recipients_reject_except option.
>
> What's wrong with
>
> recipients_reject_except = postmaster@*
>
> then?
>
> --
> Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service,
> ph10@??? Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714.
>
>
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Replied: Thu, 08 Jul 1999 09:03:39 +0100
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