Re: [Exim] Problems caused by localhost entry in Received

At 1:04 pm +0100 2004/01/07, Toralf Lund wrote:
>Or perhaps that has nothing to do with it? I've always been under the
>impression that the RBL checks would also consult the Received headers,
>but I'm beginning to think I've been wrong all along. Are the headers
>in any way checked automatically, or just the connecting IP of the SMTP
>connection?

how would they? Most of the time, if not always, RBL checks are used
in the RCPT phase, when the headers are not even known. And it would
open the gates for all sort of attacks, imagine a message coming with
hundreds of Received: header lines...

Giuliano