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Author: Jeremy Harris
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Exim always expands sender_rcvhost to unverified IP
On 18/11/2021 19:10, Bill Cole via Exim-users wrote:
> Also welcome, short of a patch, would be clues about how to detect in an Exim-written Received header when a SMTP client IP has no rDNS or the rDNS name doesn't resolve to the client IP.


It would be more reliable to interpret an Authentication-Results header (cf. RFC 8601),
assuming the Exim config creates one using the intended expansion item

eg:

add_header = :at_start:${authresults {$primary_hostname}}


In either case you would be dependent on an rDNS check having
done; this is not automatic and can be avoided by the config.

Checks of the peer IP against a hostlist item which is a name
will cause one, as will matching the host_lookup option or
an explicit verify=reverse_host_lookup ACL condition.
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Cheers,
Jeremy