Re: [exim] Sender verify rejection

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Author: Tony Finch
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To: Dermot Paikkos
CC: Exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Sender verify rejection
On Fri, 11 Mar 2005, Dermot Paikkos wrote:
>
> "One thing, yourmailserver does not give mymailserver an smtp banner
> (ESMTP Exim 3.16 #3 Fri, 04 Mar 2005). However it does give other
> hosts the banner."
>
> Could this be the reason for the sender verify failing? If so does
> anyone know why a banner is not sent for a particular host? I know
> that the exim version is old. I have an upgrade planned for later
> this year but in the meantime I want to keep the service going.


I expect you are doing RFC 1413 ident checks, and the mailserver which is
performing the callback to you has incompetently firewalled off identd and
has failed to adjust the callback timeout to compensate for this fact.

You can work around the problem by turning off ident checks.

Tony.
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