Re: [Exim] Dnslists lookups not always working

On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, Juha Saarinen wrote:

> This could be the reason though. I suppose there's a time-out for the
> DNSBL lookup... Philip?

Yes - the resolver's natural timeout. This results in a "defer" result
which should give a temporary rejection.

However, you can change this. See +include_unknown, +exclude_unknown,
and +defer_unknown.

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