marc_news@??? (Marc MERLIN) [Tuesday, September 03, 2002 12:27 PM]:
> Mmmh, that depends on the settings (that's not true by default), and
> I know exim 4 actually rejects the RCPT TO, not the MAIL FROM.
> I'm not too sure about exim 3 anymore.
I didn't phrase it properly - exim rejects well into the DATA phase in this
situation.
> You could argue that rejecting any mail violates RFCs, but quite
> frankly, I could argue back the other way :-)
Not given the fact that we use ~ 8 DNSBLs and a whacking great local
blocklist of IPs and domains ... and that isn't my argument at all.
Given the OP's situation, I just assumed that this was the reason why
Bellsouth blocked his NDN, not because they have exim configured to reject
MAIL FROM:<>
--srs
