Re: [exim] Exim and SRS

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Author: Phillip Carroll
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Exim and SRS
Yup. You need SRS.

From:    http://www.openspf.org/SRS

> SPF "breaks" email forwarding. SRS is a way to fix it.



I suggest you read experimental-spec.txt, in the exim docs folder. I
think that has about everything you need to know. On my CENTOS server it
is at /usr/share/doc/eximxxxx/doc.

Try exim -bV in a shell. You may already have SRS compiled in.
Experimental_SRS was automatically included in the prebuilt exim I
installed via yum. But I don't do any forwarding so don't have any need
for it, and haven't paid much attention to it beyond knowing the above.

On 11/2/2014 2:08 PM, Mark Elkins wrote:
> I was given the following error from a customer:
>
> A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its
> recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:
>
>    alan.hall@???
>      (generated from committee@???)
>      SMTP error from remote mail server after end of data:
>      host kendy.up.ac.za [137.215.101.101]: 554 5.7.1 failed SPF:
>      Please see
> http://www.openspf.org/why.html?sender=hnorthall%
> 40gmail.com&ip=160.124.208.1&receiver=spamcontrol.up.ac.za

>
>
> Basically, hnothall@gmail is sending mail to committee@??? (which
> I host) which has a simple Forwarder to send e-mail to five other
> addresses, including alan.hall@???
>
> From following the above links, I get the impression that I need to
> compile SRS in with Exim?
> Is there anything else I need to do? Change to exim.conf?
> Find a different rabbit hole to jump into?
>
> I run Gentoo with Exim-4.84.
>
> I have been experimenting with SFP, DKIM and DMARC stuff - but have so
> far not touched the machine that is involved above (160.124.208.1).
>
> I'd love to see an example exim.conf that included all of the new magic.
>
>
>