RE: [exim] mail-from exception to rbl

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Author: Herb Martin
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To: exim-users
Subject: RE: [exim] mail-from exception to rbl

> -----Original Message-----
> From: exim-users-bounces@???
> [mailto:exim-users-bounces@exim.org] On Behalf Of Fred Viles
> Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2005 1:35 PM
> To: exim-users@???
> Subject: Re: [exim] mail-from exception to rbl
>
> On 5 Jul 2005 at 7:40, Randy Bush wrote about
>     "[exim] mail-from exception to rbl":

>
> |...
> | i want to accept a few mail-from
> | before the dnsrbl rejects. so i have hacked the brutal
> |
> | accept local_parts = (user1\@\do\.main|foo\@\earthlink\.\com)
> |
> | do i have this correctly?
>
> No. local_parts has nothing to do with sender addresses, it
> tests the local part of the *recipient* address.
>
> | is there something cleaner i should do?
>
> There are many ways to skin this cat. I have separate
> whitelists for sender domains (e.g. customers & partners) and
> individual sender addresses when I don't want to whitelist a
> whole domain (e.g.
> customer@???). Both lists are reasonably short, so I use
> simple ASCII files and lsearch for them:


This is what I do -- running a DNS server on my email server --
I have a white list that is checked by Exim before the black
lists and ACCEPTS the exceptions to blacklist processing.