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Author: Matthew Byng-Maddick
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To: Exim Users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Urgent problem: Blanket rejection problem on upgrade to 4.31
On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 11:50:56AM +0100, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 11:40:43AM +0100, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> >     a)  Exim is now using the original sender address rather than <>
> >     to do callouts
> >     b)  Exim is not distinguishing between a rejection of the MAIL
> >     and RCPT verbs in the context of recipient verification
> Erm, of course b) is slightly incorrect.  The rejection is happening at
> the RCPT stage, because that's when the callout is happening.  The
> problem is entirely point a).  Which is a big problem.


Not doing it is also a big problem, especially with certain addresses
configured not to accept bounces (because they should never be sending
mail). Really you want to be cacheing the tuple, I think.

MBM

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