Re: [exim] Blocking non-existant Domain Names

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Auteur: Suresh Ramasubramanian
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Aan: Marc Perkel
CC: exim-users
Onderwerp: Re: [exim] Blocking non-existant Domain Names
On Sun, Aug 28, 2005 at 02:43:20PM -0700, Marc Perkel wrote:
>> # Deny unless the sender address can be verified.
>>
>>  require verify        = sender

>>
>>
>You're going to get a lot of false positives if you do this because if
>there's a server problem in verification of the sebder it's going to bounce.
>
>I wonder if there is a way to distinguish a DNS error from a domain that
>doesn't exist?


5xx on nonexistent sender domain requires NXDOMAIN to be returned for that
domain. If there's a temporary error - say SERVFAIL, it'd be a 4xx error.

The sending MTA can retry later and if the dns resolution fixes itself /
gets fixed, email will get through just fine

    srs


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