Re: [Exim] HELO reject when reverse DNS lookup fails - trivi…

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Author: Nigel Metheringham
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To: Philip Hazel
CC: Paul Sheer, exim-users
New-Topics: Re: [Exim] HELO reject when reverse DNS lookup fails - trivial pat ch and new c onf option suggested
Subject: Re: [Exim] HELO reject when reverse DNS lookup fails - trivial patch and new c onf option suggested
Reading from the spec document....
> Even if its address doesn't match `host_lookup', a sending host's real
> name is looked up from its IP address if the argument it provides for
> the HELO or EHLO command is the local host's own name, or the name of
> one of its local domains, which seems to be a fairly common
> misconfiguration.


Does this extra logic actually gain anything, and would we be better
dropping this special casing on DNS reverse lookups and just relying on
the `host_lookup' config variable.

    Nigel.
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