[Pkg-exim4-users] Exim Howto

[Marc Haber]

On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 05:20:12AM -0500, Joseph wrote:
> Marc Haber wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 04:46:14PM -0500, Joseph wrote:
> >>Marc Haber wrote:
> >>>Set the CHECK_RCPT_VERIFY_SENDER macro and/or put domains in question
> >>>in CONFDIR/local_sender_callout. These two are Debian specific.
> >>
> >>Is this considered to be a good tool/setup?
> > 
> > 
> > Expand "this". exim is an excellent tool, and being one of the
> > package's makers, I am slightly opinionated about the quality and
> > flexibility of our default configuration.
> > 
> > But a hunch tells me that you mean something different with "this".
> 
> Yes, the CHECK_RCPT_VERIFY_SENDER part.

You need to decide for yourself whether to use a check or not. It is
disable by default since it might be rejecting legitimate mail.

> >>We currently get quite a few requests to whitelist ip/domains that fail
> >>the test.
> > 
> > A whitelist is available. Please read the comments in the config file
> > and the available documentation.
> 
> I assume you mean a whitelist for CHECK_RCPT_VERIFY_SENDER or did you
> mean for something else?

There is a whitelist mechanism that is honored in most ACL checks.
Please take a look at the configuration itself and at the docs.

Greetings
Marc

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