Re: [exim] reverse_host_lookup and SERVFAIL

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Author: Fred Viles
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] reverse_host_lookup and SERVFAIL
On 19 Jan 2005 at 11:34, Alan J. Flavell wrote about
    "Re: [exim] reverse_host_lookup and ":


| On Wed, 19 Jan 2005, Ryan Tracey wrote:
|
| > Thanks for clearing that one up. So it is better to warn initially
| > and later use the X-Broken-Reverse-DNS header -- if you don't want
| > someone elses broken DNS to cause their emails to be indefinitely
| > temporarily rejected (considering that they are probably going to
| > take a long time to fix their DNS.)
|
| Keep in mind that if you accept mail "from" a persistently unreachable
| address,

|...

All true, but ISTM that isn't the situation here. The verification
that's failing is reverse_host_lookup, not sender.

- Fred