Autor: Dave C. Data: Dla: Marc MERLIN CC: Philip Hazel, exim-users Temat: Re: [Exim] can't currently verify any sender in the header lines
On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Marc MERLIN wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 09:07:08PM +0000, Philip Hazel wrote:
> > On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Marc MERLIN wrote:
> >
> > > Why is this mail not being accepted?
> > > In this case, exim complains that the header From's domain doesn't
> > > resolve and maybe (I can't tell for sure from the error message) that
> > > wwwac@??? isn't accepted by focazio.com's MX, but yet both are
> > > false:
> >
> > You have turned on callback checking. The mailserver for focazio.com
> > does not accept
> >
> > MAIL FROM:<>
> >
> > It says
> >
> > 502 Unimplemented command
>
> Aaahhh, I get it.
>
> > I suggest you complain to the postmaster.
>
> Considering the amount in my logs, I'm afraid I don't have enough time in my
> days to do this :-(
>
> I'm not using the callback checking to punish people who can't read RFCs
> (although it's sometimes tempting), but more to lower the amount of crap
> that makes it through my mail servers.
>
> I'm going to patch exim to do a MAIL FROM: <postmaster@???> instead.
Ugh.. You are Waaaay too nice.. I would never let anyone get away with
that....
> Would you consider making that an option for a future release?
Definately default to the current behaviour, and the docs should have a
STRONG recommendation not to change it..
>
> BTW, if you can tell me off hand which file I should edit, I'd appreciate
> it (if not, don't worry, I'll look for it)
>
> Thanks
> Marc
>
