Re: [Exim] host_lookup question

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Aly Dharshi
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] host_lookup question
On Sun, 28 Apr 2002, Aly Dharshi wrote:

>     I have host_lookup=*  but it seems that there is a site called
> nsmith.com, and a user is using this to send mail to a mailing list on our
> system, it seems that I get this error:

>
>     2002-04-28 12:47:01 H=shodan.reznet.uleth.ca [142.66.75.205]
> F=<multimediaclub-admin@???> temporarily rejected RCPT
> <xxxxxxxxx@???>: host lookup did not complete


You must have got some setting in your ACL that tests the host name.
Since it can't look up the name, it is having to reject the recipient.
You'll need to adjust your ACL so that it doesn't require a host name,
or arrange to test this host differently.



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