Bug#388460: Re: Bug#388460: exim4-daemon-light: sender verification is not working

[Marc Haber]

tags #388460 confirmed pending
thanks

On Sun, Sep 24, 2006 at 02:10:16PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> I think that it is ok that sender and recipient address verification
> does not work for smarthost setups by default.
>
> The fact that it took years for somebody to actually discover that
> address verification does not work as expected suports my position.
> 
> Having something like this in docs might do trick:
> -------------------
> Sender and recipient address verification will not work for non-local
> domains using smarthost setups. As any non-local mail (or for
> satellite setups all mail) is simply sent on to the smarthost *all*
> non-local addresses are deliverable for exim and therefore verify.
> -------------------

I agree. I have written something along these lines in the comments of
the RCPT ACL and committed to svn.

Greetings
Marc

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