Re: [Exim] sender_verify

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Author: maillist
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To: Ralf G. R. Bergs, exim list
Subject: Re: [Exim] sender_verify
exim_rejectlog:

2002-07-11 11:34:35 17SbHP-00064h-00 rejected from he102war.uk.vianw.net
[195.102.249.209]: cannot route to sender <post@???>

there is no valid A record for mfaqs.co.uk but, has valid MX record:

mfaqs.co.uk     preference = 20, mail exchanger = mserv1.u-net.net
mfaqs.co.uk     preference = 10, mail exchanger = mserv0.u-net.net
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ralf G. R. Bergs" <rabe@???>
To: "exim list" <exim-users@???>
Cc: "maillist" <mailtolist@???>
Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2002 5:26 PM
Subject: Re: [Exim] sender_verify



On Thu, 18 Jul 2002 16:19:33 +0530, maillist wrote:

>I have exim 3.36 installed on RH Linux 7.2. Recently I have enabled
>sender_verify option which rejects mail if the A record of sender domain

doesn't
>exist.So, if say user@??? try to send mail to me my mail server will

reject
>mail as there is no A record for exim.org.


I don't know who told you so, but this is nonsense.

It checks for a valid MX record, of course. Anything else would be nonsense as
well.


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