Re: [Exim] sender verification

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Author: Dan Shoop
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To: Giuliano Gavazzi, exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] sender verification
At 11:21 PM +0100 1/28/04, Giuliano Gavazzi wrote:
>At 4:12 pm -0500 2004/01/28, Dan Shoop wrote:
>>Hello,
>>
>>I have a pretty stock exim configuration with acl_smtp_rcpt acl that
>>looks like:
>>
>>acl_check_rcpt:
>>
>>   accept  hosts = :
>>   deny    local_parts   = ^.*[@%!/|]
>>   accept  local_parts   = postmaster

>
>        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

>
>you want this to be in a local domain, otherwise you are accepting
>and relaying all mail to postmaster, whatever the domain. So you
>should append to it
>
>           domains       = +local_domains


Actually I had that but must have trimmed it with the comments to the
next lines
when I posted.

>>   require verify        = sender/callout
>>[...]

>>
>>Now if I understand this correctly, the verify sender should check
>>that the sender is valid, at least from a delivery standpoint. So I'd
>>imagine that if a message delivery attempt was made from a
>>non-existant user at a fake domain that the message would get
>>rejected, but this doesn't appear to be the case for me:
>
>Have you sighupped exim after having changed the configuration?


Yes.

Any ideas?
--

-dhan

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