Re: [Exim] Exim Help

On 13 Aug 2001 22:53:45 +0100, wayne pascoe wrote:

>It sounds to me like it is trying to do a reverse lookup on your IP
>address. The line that controls this in your exim config is
>host_lookup
>
>You could try commenting that line out of your exim config file. The
>other thing that you could try is to add a reverse dns entry for your
>IP address if you control that in-addr.arpa zone.

this can also be triggered inadvertantly with something like a

host_reject_recipients=

that has domain names in the list as well as IP addresses; if this is
the case, then you may need to specify +allow_unknown, e.g.

host_reject_recipients=+allow_unknown:10.0.0.0/8:172.16.0.0/12:192.168.0.0/16

richard