Re: [exim] sender verify

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Author: Odhiambo G. Washington
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To: Jeff Allen
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] sender verify
* On 18/07/06 14:36 -0400, Jeff Allen wrote:
| Hi,
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| I have looked around but have yet to come up with a solution that works
| on my exim box. I am running Exim 4.43 with Spamassassin and a MySQL
| backend that is setup to run LDAP lookups to our internal Exchange
| servers. My problem lies with a partner of ours who have an option on
| there website to reset passwords. The email address that sends the new
| password is not valid on there server and they refuse to create the
| account or an alias for this email as according to them I am the only
| person in the world using sender verify. Here is what I see in my logs.
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| 2006-07-18 11:36:33 H=navgwout.blah.com [198.] sender verify fail for
| <badaddress@???>: response to "RCPT TO:<badaddress@???>" from
| extu-mxib-1.blah.com [216.] was: 550 5.0.0 <badaddress@???>... User
| unknown
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| 2006-07-18 11:36:33 H=navgwout.blah.com [198.6.49.12]
| F=<badaddress@???> rejected RCPT <me@???>: Sender verify
| failed
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| I have tried commenting out anything to do with sender verify in my
| configure file but that didn't seem to help... Any ideas?


I think you can work around this by using a rule in acl_smtp_mail:

accept senders = badaddress@???

This way, its processing does not get to acl_smtp_rcpt.

HTH!


        cheers
       - wash 
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