Re: [exim] Checking recipient and wildcard

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Author: Mike Cardwell
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Checking recipient and wildcard
On 08/02/2010 17:38, Shaun R wrote:

> I have a exim setup that is a redundant MX. The server accepts mail for
> a list of domains and holds the mail until it can deliver it to the
> primary server. The problem i'm having is that this server gets a ton
> of spam because it's accepting mail for any recipient and then hammers
> the primary server. I modified my check_recipient acl so that it has
> the following
>
>    accept  domains = +relay_domains
>    local_parts = lsearch;/etc/relaydomains/$domain
>    verify = recipient

>
>
> Before it only had
>
>    accept  domains = +relay_domains

>
> This works great as long as i keep /etc/relaydomains/$domain updates but
> the problem comes with some domains that have catchall type aliases. On
> the primary server the aliases file has a *: catchall@domain entry.
> With the modifications above if i add * to the /etc/relaydomains/$domain
> it does not accept mail for all recipients.
>
> Looking for ideas about what i need to do, thanks!


Is there a reason why your secondary MX can't perform the same spam
filtering as your primary MX?

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