On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, Adrian Harris wrote:
> What other options in 3.16 should cause:
>
> 2000-10-20 10:36:24 recipients from [10.5.50.84] refused (failed to find
> host
> name from IP address)
>
> for local hosts, if host_lookup_nets is commented out ?
>
> Exim has never been able to do reverse lookups on our internal hosts, but it
> seems to have broken.
>
> The changes I made which seems to have caused this is to add:
>
> # host_reject_recipients = "*.exactis.com:*.easynet.net"
You have told it to reject mail from any host whose name matches one of
the above. In order for exim to determine wether the host name matches,
it MUST do an rDNS lookup. Add +allow_unknown at the beginning if you
want to also allso hosts without rDNS
> # recipients_reject_except = postmaster
>
> and commenting these out again seems to have stopped the rejects, but leaves
> me with a different problem.
>
>
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