Re: [Exim] rejected messages

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Author: dman
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] rejected messages
On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 02:28:36PM +0000, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote:
| On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 06:27:01AM -0800, dbroome@??? wrote:
| > Would it be a good addition to have exim go through a 2nd round of
| > rbl host checking after the message is reieved fom the connecting
| > host that chrecks all the intermediate hosts.


SpamAssassin does this by looking at all the Received: headers. Score
those tests to match you preference.

| > This would allow triggering on messages sent via known relays ie
| > rss.mail-abuse.org or Spews.relays.OsiruSoft.com.


| This is a bad idea. What about, for example, dialup lists?


Use or don't use the DUL as you feel appropriate. Many people feel
that dialup users ought to be using their ISP as a relay instead of
delivering directly anyway.

| It also assumes that you trust the veracity of the Received: headers
| that your mailserver doesn't generate,


Yeah. Likewise for all other information in an email or its envelope
(aside from the RCPT).

| If you're going to do this, it should be done in a procmail filter
| or similar, not in the MTA.


Right.

-D

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