Re: [exim] Another strange problem

On 10/18/2012 10:26 AM, Dave Lugo wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Oct 2012, Marc Perkel wrote:
>>
>> In the mail acl I have:
>>
>> accept hosts = orange.nl
>>
>> However orange.nl has their DNS down and I get a temp error on
>> EVERYTHING.
>>
>> 2012-10-18 10:02:19 H=mx1.appearseen.com [31.171.132.8] temporarily
>> rejected MAIL <root@???>
>>
>> However if I do:
>>
>> warn hosts = orange.nl
>>
>> At least it bypasses it. Is that supposed to happen?
>>
>>
>
> You may want to read through:
>
> 10.14 Behaviour when an IP address or name cannot be found
>
> I think you want to add +ignore_unknown to that.
>

But - if you do a reverse IP lookup and the IP resolves to something
other than orange.nl then it should not be a local problem on all other
domains.

This feels like a major bug to me.