On Mon, 22 Oct 2007, Dean Brooks wrote: > On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 01:26:19PM -0400, Jason Keltz wrote: > > > Should this condition not exist in acl_smtp_mail?? > > > > (ie. before you check the recipients, you check the sender???) > > > > I'm trying to build a few accept/deny conditions in the acl_smtp_mail > > ACL ... once exim gets past there, and I accept the sender, but the > > default "require verify = sender" in smtp_rcpt would deny the message... > > everything seems to work if I remove "require verify = sender" from > > acl_smtp_rcpt, but I'm hesitant to remove it because it's not clear to > > me why it's there, and not in acl_smtp_mail in the first place? > > Some MTAs in the world don't gracefully handle rejections at MAIL > time. It's fairly universal, though, that rejections at RCPT time are > honored properly. > > So, many Exim configurations put the sender verification rejections > during the RCPT phase instead.
And the other reason is that you may make that check conditional on the rcpt being processedn: checks on mail to your postmaster and abuse addresses will typically be more lenient than for other arbitrary recipients, for example so that you can still communicate with a misbehaving sending site. Jethro. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jethro R Binks Computing Officer, IT Services University Of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
