It's compairing your IP, not the hostname you say you are.
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/\---/\ Eric J Fox
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On Sat, 21 Jan 2006, Larry wrote:
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>
> I am trying to setup deny hosts in my acl. I just want to ask a few question
> and make sure I am doing things the right way.
>
> first I put in my ACL section in the default config file;
>
>
> begin acl
>
> accept hosts = :
>
> deny hosts = /usr/local/exim/deny.list
> message = Crap emails rejected here, get lost.
>
>
> And the rest of the default ACL below that.
>
> Then in the deny.list I put;
>
> one.host.com : another.host.com and so on....
>
> then I restarted exim and did a telnet to the mail port as
> one.host.com and exim accepted the email. WIll exim accept
> the email if I telnet to the mail port and send it the
> bogus mail with the denied address? Or did I do somethin else wrong?
>
> Thanks
> Widgeteye
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