Re: [Exim] RBL feature request

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Matt Bernstein
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] RBL feature request
On Mon, 30 Jul 2001, Matt Bernstein wrote:

> As we (those in .ac.uk) are being pushed into using rbl-plus, I'd like to
> know which of the RBL, DUL & RSS list my RBL+ mails. Unfortunately, at
> present Exim will not record the returned IP address in the X-RBL-Warning:
> header, so everything is listed as "(rbl-plus...)".


Well, I don't know anything about RBL+, so I haven't any idea of the
details of what you are talking about. Are you asking for some variable
with the information? (Then you could build your own message.) This is
all different in Exim 4, of course.

> I (and I guess other JANET Exim postmasters) would like to see this in
> Exim 3, (would it be easier in Exim 4 anyway?) and from a quick look at
> the source it doesn't look too difficult, but I'm scared to do it myself
> as (a) I'm not a brilliant programmer and (b) I know nothing of IPv6.


RBL lookups are DNS lookups, done by calling the local resolver. IPv6 is
not involved at all.



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