Re: [exim] verify = header_sender

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Author: Marilyn Davis
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] verify = header_sender
On Fri, 25 Feb 2005, Philip Hazel wrote:

> On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, Marilyn Davis wrote:
>
> > > I don't immediately see how it works in the routers. Does it work the
> > > same as "verify = sender"? If I have a router with
> > > "verify_sender_only" set, will "verify = header_sender" go there?
> >
> > Ooops. Rather, if my router has: verify_sender = no, will
> > header_sender verification try that router?
>
> I had, in fact, (on a double-take) understood that that was what you
> were asking... the answer is "no".
>
> > Now I have a router just for verifying the envelope sender, and one
> > just for verifying recipients. I'd like to verify the header_sender
> > in an ACL but I want that to be another special router. Can I arrange
> > that?
>
> I'm afraid not.


Hmmm, no sweat. I think I can do it by manipulating acl_m?.

Thanks again.

Marilyn

>
> > When verify = header_sender is happening, if a Reply-To: address can't
> > be verified, will it then try to verify the From: address?
> >
> > I don't seem to find any info in the regular places.
>
> verify = header_sender/<options>
>
>    This condition is relevant only in an ACL that is run after a message
>    has been received, that is, in an ACL specified by "acl_smtp_data" or       |
>    "acl_not_smtp". It checks that there is a verifiable address in at least    |
>    one of the Sender:, Reply-To:, or From: header lines. Such an address is    |
>    loosely thought of as a 'sender' address (hence the name of the test).      |

>
> (That's from the 4.50 manual.) So the answer is "yes".
>
>


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