On 12 Feb 2000, John Henders wrote:
> In <Pine.SOL.3.96.1000210094137.24330G-100000@???> ph10@??? (Philip Hazel) writes:
>
> >On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, robert rotman wrote:
>
> >> > > i have this in my "local_domains":
> >> > > localhost:mysql;select domain from mail where domain='$key'
> >> >
> >> > I don't think that is a very sensible kind of configuration. The manual
> >> > has this to say:
> >> >
> >>
> >> but you told me to do so ;-)
> >> (http://www.egroups.com/group/exim-users/10024.html)
>
> >Oops. Well, we all make mistakes... :-)
>
> >If your database is on the same host, and runs quickly, and you don't
> >have too much mail, I guess that is in fact OK, but personally I just
> >wouldn't want to risk it.
>
> Using the fact that the MX points to the local host and fail = soft can
> avoid these expensive lookups completely.
i know..
but that is very dangerous and insecure.
it is also written in the doc's.
robert
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