Re: [Exim] Strange rejects

On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, Philip Hazel wrote:

> On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, Adrian Harris wrote:
>
> > > Yup. Putting a wildcard in a host list causes a reverse lookup. How
> > > else can Exim find the host name, in order to match against
> > > *.exactis.com? RTFM about host lists.
> >
> > I had assumed it would spot the tail of the domain rom the HELO.
>
> You can't trust the data in the HELO! Anybody can forge it.


True, but more relevant; exim does not use the HELO value to compare
against host_reject_recipients

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