Re: [Exim] [patch] +allow_address

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: J. Nick Koston
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] [patch] +allow_address
On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, J. Nick Koston wrote:

>    I don't know if anybody will find this useful (maybe I'm reinventing
> the wheel), but I run a pop before relay system and it always annoyed me that
> if the ip didn't have a reverse name it would always get rejected by exim to
> relay.  adding +allow_address in from of the hosts_accept_relay = 
> lsearch;/etc/relayhosts now lets that mail go though..  Its kinda bad that
> users with bad rdns get rejected in this situation.  However, there are many
> reasons why you don't want this turned on :-)


How does your +allow_address differ from the existing +allow_unknown?
What am I missing?

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Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service,
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