Author: Dean Brooks Date: To: exim-users Subject: Re: [exim] require verify = sender
On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 01:26:19PM -0400, Jason Keltz wrote:
> Should this condition not exist in acl_smtp_mail??
>
> (ie. before you check the recipients, you check the sender???)
>
> I'm trying to build a few accept/deny conditions in the acl_smtp_mail
> ACL ... once exim gets past there, and I accept the sender, but the
> default "require verify = sender" in smtp_rcpt would deny the message...
> everything seems to work if I remove "require verify = sender" from
> acl_smtp_rcpt, but I'm hesitant to remove it because it's not clear to
> me why it's there, and not in acl_smtp_mail in the first place?
Some MTAs in the world don't gracefully handle rejections at MAIL
time. It's fairly universal, though, that rejections at RCPT time are
honored properly.
So, many Exim configurations put the sender verification rejections
during the RCPT phase instead.
