On Fri, 18 Feb 2005, Andris Peize wrote:
> on 4.44 I set
> verify = reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok
I have now looked at this report. If you read the documentation (section
39.20 in the 4.50 manual), you will discover that there is no /defer_ok
option for this verify condition.
There is therefore a bug in that Exim is not diagnosing a configuration
error for this setting.
1. I will fix the bug.
2. I will add a WishList item suggesting the addition of /defer_ok.
> Then it first looks up dns, which is fine,
>
> Then it reduntantly calls gethostbyaddr() which returns EAGAIN and now
> defer_ok seems like has no purpose at all
The code seems very clear that any DEFER stops it, so I'm unclear how it
would call gethostbyaddr() after a temporary error from the DNS. Are you
sure it went on to call gethostbyaddr()?
> I had to set host_lookup_order to get previous behavior back.
What was the "previous behaviour"?
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