Re: [Exim] Re: Ho hum... Blackhole Lists...

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Author: dman
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To: exim-users
New-Topics: [Exim] transport_filter and spamc
Subject: Re: [Exim] Re: Ho hum... Blackhole Lists...
On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 09:48:21PM +0000, Dirk Koopman wrote:
| On Tue, 2002-02-19 at 20:41, dman wrote:
| > On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 06:17:52PM +0000, Dirk Koopman wrote:
| >
| > | The specific problem I am trying to solve is this: my exim machine was
| > | blackholed in orbz.org because the simple 'send_to_spamc' director was
| > | passed the 'relay@???' in "relay@???"@localhost (that is:
| > | BEFORE I added the above director).
| >
| > Oh!! I see what the problem is now! When you re-inject the message
| > after SA processes it, you only pass $local_part as the recipient
| > address. Thus the "@localhost" is gone the next time exim sees it and
| > the message is relayed. I haven't tested this yet, but it seems
| > logical. The solution, then, is to pass the entire recipient address,
| > not just the local_part, to exim when re-injecting the message. Then
| > it should be bounced as usual.

|
| But adding the extra "filtering" director means that I kill it at RCPT
| TO: time the first time around, which I prefer because I then don't have
| to bounce anything - it becomes Somebody Else's Problem.


A nice feature, but that doesn't correct (one of) the actual Defects
that are present. Regardless of that extra director or not, the full
address should be given back to exim when reinjecting the tagged
message.

-D

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