Re: [Exim] relay control: host_lookup, +allow_unknown

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Author: Suresh Ramasubramanian
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] relay control: host_lookup, +allow_unknown
Andreas M. Kirchwitz rearranged electrons thusly:

> What did help, was adding +allow_unknown (or +warn_unkown) to
> "host_accept_relay".


So even if the host is unknown, you accept relaying from it.

> I'm not really sure, what exactly "+allow_unknown" does. But from
> my point of view it's something like: "I don't want to disable DNS
> lookup for !1.2.3.0/24 globally by adding it to host_lookup. I just


sounds like that

> I prefer IP blocks, but I have sites where IP addresses don't
> help - only hostnames can be used for them.


sounds like a great case for implementing smtp-auth ;)

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