On Mon, 3 Jul 2000, Paul Walsh wrote:
> There are occasions when an originating host is on one of the RBL lists AND
> it doesn't have a reverse-DNS. In such cases, Exim bounces the message with
> the following:
>
> Recipient: <user@???>
> Reason: Open relay problem - see
> <URL:http://www.mail-abuse.org/cgi-bin/nph-rss?xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx>
> mail from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx rejected: administrative prohibition
> (failed to find host name from IP address)
The first two lines of that don't look like an Exim message. Why did it
need to look up the host address? Have you run it with -bh to find out
why it tried that?
> Is there anything that can be done so that the message could
> read
>
> mail from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx rejected: administrative prohibition
> (host is blacklisted)
>
> or words to that effect?
More info as to why it is attempting the lookup (e.g. -bh output) might
enable me to answer this one.
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