On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Marc Haber wrote:
> I have host_accept_relay = /etc/exim/host_accept_relay
> with that file containing a mixture of host names, networks
> (10.0.0.0/24 for example) and native IPs (10.11.12.13 for example).
>
> When I have an IP explicitly listed in the file, and the double
> reverse lookup for this address doesn't work or doesn't match,
> relaying is denied ("refused relay (host) ... (failed to find host
> name from IP address) or (<IP> does not match any IP address for
> hostname)".
See FAQ A0815. Do your IP addresses come first? They should.
> Does exim have an option to allow relaying from IP addresses eplicitly
> listed in a list even without working reverse DNS?
Yes. Put the IP address before any wildcarded host names in the list.
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