Re: [Exim] IP-based rejection

On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, Paul Makepeace wrote:

> > > recipient <[...]> refused [...] (failed to find host name from IP address)

> Thanks, it turns out to be host_reject_recipients.
>
> So, I have in exim.conf,
>
> host_reject_recipients = lsearch;/etc/mail/host_reject
>
> which is a list of IP-addresses only, i.e. none of them are fqdns. Yet,
> it is still failing because it can't look them up?

No Sir, it isn't - re-read Phil's answer (the part you snipped) again.

It's rejecting it because it's rejecting the host IP; it's merely
commenting (parenthetically) that it's unable to look up this IP to
give you its name.