[exim] Re: What does exim do with malformed messages?

Startseite
Nachricht löschen
Nachricht beantworten
Autor: Jeremy Harris
Datum:  
To: exim-users
Betreff: [exim] Re: What does exim do with malformed messages?
On 11/29/23 15:42, John R Levine via Exim-users wrote:
> If a malformed mail message shows up by SMTP (not local sendmail or submission),
> will exim generally try to clean it up or just pass it along?
>
> I see the discussion of submission mode in chapter 48 of the manual and all the
> options about when to run it and what to tell it to do, but in practice, will a
> typical system clean everything up, just locally submitted stuff, or soemthing
> else? Tnx.


Exim's submission mode is set on a per-message basis
under the control of the local configuration.

The example config file in Exim git sets submission
for
a) anything received from a named-list of hosts
    (the "list" can be static, can be a DB lookup).
    The list is called "relay_from hosts" which is
    a hint as to the intended use - but names are only
    interpreted by the config, not meaningful to the
    Exim code.
b) anything received under SMTP authentication


--
Cheers,
Jeremy


--
## subscription configuration (requires account):
## https://lists.exim.org/mailman3/postorius/lists/exim-users.lists.exim.org/
## unsubscribe (doesn't require an account):
## exim-users-unsubscribe@???
## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/
## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/