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Author: John Burnham
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To: exim-users@exim.org
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Subject: Re: [exim] logs
> On every single incoming mail this is attached to it even from the exim
> list..
>
> no IP address found for host phpbbspprt840.gmail.com (during SMTP
> connection from tahini.csx.cam.ac.uk [131.111.8.192])
>



That's because, as you stated in a previous message, you have a deny list containing that hostname. Exim looks up the hostname when it gets a connection to see if the IP the connection is from that host. That hostname doesn't resolve:
$ dig phpbbspprt840.gmail.com

; <<>> DiG 9.3.6-P1-RedHat-9.3.6-20.P1.el5_8.5 <<>> phpbbspprt840.gmail.com
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 58335
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;phpbbspprt840.gmail.com.       IN      A

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
gmail.com.              60      IN      SOA     ns1.google.com. dns-admin.google.com. 1508104 21600 3600 1209600 300

;; Query time: 12 msec
;; SERVER: 10.0.64.1#53(10.0.64.1)
;; WHEN: Fri Jan  4 10:09:33 2013
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 98

So each connection will have that message.

 John