Re: [exim] rfc-ignorant.org - auto reporting those who rejec…

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Author: Ian Eiloart
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Subject: Re: [exim] rfc-ignorant.org - auto reporting those who reject mail from: <>


--On Monday, October 25, 2004 12:38 pm +0100 Philip Hazel
<ph10@???> wrote:

> On Sun, 24 Oct 2004, Marc Perkel wrote:
>
>> Having said that - there should be a hook in Exim to detect that the host
>> doesn't take empty senders from anyone rather than it rejected it after
>> the rcpt to: was presented. A failure after rcpt to: has a different
>> meaning than a failure after mail from:<> and these conditions should be
>> treated separately.
>
> The problem is that "verify=sender" can only yield true or false, but I
> guess there could be a variable that indicates what went wrong.


Yes, please. That might stop people using rfc-ignorant.org listings as
whitelists, which must be counterproductive.

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> Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service,
> ph10@???      Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714.
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Ian Eiloart
Servers Team
Sussex University ITS