Ah! thanks for that.
On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 15:02, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> On 2004-07-01 Ron McKeating <R.J.Mckeating@???> wrote:
> > Looking at page 339/50 of Phils's book, I am still not clear on how far
> > sender verify goes. It implies that it is only interested in where it
> > can send a bounce message to, so does that mean if it can find an mx
> > value for the domain part then it is happy ?
> [...]
>
> It runs the routers in verify mode, i.e. basically "exim -bv
> add@ress", therefore it depends on *your* routers what is acceptable.
> - If you've just the normal
>
> dnslookup:
> driver = dnslookup
> domains = ! +local_domains
> transport = remote_smtp
>
> then a MX is suffficient, otoh if you've a smarthost-setup, simply
> sending everything to another host
> smarthost:
> driver = manualroute
> domains = ! +local_domains
> transport = remote_smtp
> route_list = * some.host
>
> then the sender verify basically is uselss, as it will always
> succeed.
> cu andreas
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