haha, thanks for replying. I will do the work, I'm sure I can find
the answer. Kudos to the documentation--it is very thorough.
What I'm confused about is that some hosts will be rejected because
the IP isn't reverse-resolvable, but *.free4all.com is let in anyways.
hank
On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 06:34:28PM +0200, Tamas TEVESZ wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, Adam Henry wrote:
>
> > 495 732000 (ronald.free4all.com)
>
> > I'm sorry if I missed this in the documentation or the FAQ, but I'm
> > questioning the meaning of the parenthesis. It looks like these hosts
> > fail the gethostbyip() system call,
>
> exactly. in the parenthesis it's the name they claimed to be (via
> ehlo/helo), not who they actually are, according to dns.
>
> > but I was under the impression
> > that Exim will refuse mail coming from these machines.
>
> it can be configured to do so, alas i'm not sure offhand how, and i'm
> too lazy to look it up ;)
>
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