Re: [Exim] RBL reject messages

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Auteur: Philip Hazel
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Aan: Frank Elsner
CC: exim-users
Onderwerp: Re: [Exim] RBL reject messages
On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Frank Elsner wrote:

>
> Running exim-3.10 on Solaris I've found two types of rejection messages
>
> 1999-11-30 11:17:38 recipient <...> refused from proxy.cg92.fr [193.106.124.18] (RBL)
> 1999-11-30 11:17:38 recipients refused from proxy.cg92.fr [193.106.124.18] (RBL
> relays.mail-abuse.org)
>
> Why doesn't the RBL name show up in the first ?


Did those two messages really appear on your log in that order? I would
have expected them to be the other way round.

. The one that says "recipients refused from" is output at the start of
an SMTP connection, when Exim discovers that the sender is in an RBL,
and decides to reject all recipients. It does not, however, preserve
the name of the RBL domain.

. The one that says "recipient <xxx> refused" is output only if
log_refused_recipients is set (it is not set by default) and it
happens when a RCPT command gets rejected. This was a later addition
to Exim as a result of a user request.


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Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service,
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