Re: [Exim] re:relay problem

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Author: Dave C.
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To: Jim Pazarena
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] re:relay problem

On Tue, 2 Nov 1999, Jim Pazarena wrote:

> To respond to my own question, I "think" I've found where my problem lies.
> Could someone confirm?
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> First of all, regretably the original example above is *after* I made a
> change which appears to have fixed my problem.
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> My host_accept_relay included TWO files, "friendly_nets" (IPs) and
>                                          "friendly_hosts" (FQDNs)
> Since exim had to resolve the friendly_hosts, it appears that it enforced
> reverse-DNS on even the friendly_nets. Once I removed "friendly_hosts"
> from the configure line, relaying was permitted.

>
> Is my reasoning for my original problem correct?



Which of the two files appeared first? I beleive this matters, and I
beleive if you ensure that the IP addresses come FIRST, they will be
permitted.. I'm sure someone will correct me if I am wrong....



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