Re: [Exim] Lookup negation

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Dean Brooks
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Lookup negation
On Tue, 1 Feb 2000, Dean Brooks wrote:

> However, we noticed that remote users were sometimes being rejected in
> the DUL RBL lists, so I wanted to try and use something like:
>
>    rbl_hosts = !net32-dbm;/usr/exim/relaydb

>
> That is, I was hoping to be able to negate the return value of the DBM
> lookup. To my surprise, though, it appears that Exim 3.13 doesn't
> support the negation of *any* lookups other than listing a file by
> just it's path name (include style format).


It should work. The negation code is general, not specific. I will
investigate when I get a minute, but in the meantime, have you tried the
test

exim -bh 1.2.3.4

where "1.2.3.4" is the IP address of a host in the relaydb file?

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