On Wed, 12 Jul 2000 o.cook@??? wrote:
> I am getting errors in the reject_log similar to the following:
>
> 2000-07-12 09:38:33 refused relay (host) to <rachel.dent@???> from
> <simon.kay@???> H=(barringtons.uk.net) [212.159.24.108]
> (failed to find host name from IP address)
What this means is "I refused a relay from [212.159.24.108] because it
is not a host that matches host_accept relay. Oh, by the way, I failed
to find a host name for that IP address."
> I then stumbled upon the "host_reject = +warn_unknown" option - so I put
> that in the configuration file and restarted exim. I expected this to make
> exim accept emails where it couldn't lookup the other server's hostname, but
> to log it. However, the situation was unchanged, and the mail was still
> being rejected.
Where did you put this in the config?
> >>> host in host_accept_relay? no (failed to find host name or lookup
> deferred)
Here it is checking host_accept_relay, but failing to find the host
name. That suggests you have some wild-card name in host_accept_relay.
> host_accept_relay = localhost:mysql;MYSQL_RELAY
This is your problem. In order to check that setting, it has to find a
host name from the IP address. If it can't, it cannot check, so refuses
to relay. If you put +warn_unknown at the front it should do the warning
thing.
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