On 17/03/2008, Jeroen van Aart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thought you'd like to know.
>
>  To quote
>  http://projects.puremagic.com/greylisting/whitepaper.html?view=markup:

A source that's 5 years old...

>
>  "One issue is that some MTA software (Exim for example) attempts to
>  limit the problem of forged sender addresses by attempting to verify
>  that the claimed sender of an email is a valid address by doing an SMTP
>  callback before accepting mail. Since it is desired to minimize the
>  traffic when a mail may be rejected, the best course of
>  action would be to issue a tempfail after the RCPT command. However, in
>  the case of a SMTP callback, doing so at that point may cause our
>  outgoing mail to be delayed necessarily."
>
>  I don't think exim does that by default (anymore?). It could get you
>  blacklisted someone wrote here recently.

Exim never has done callouts by default - which is confirmed by the
Exim documentation referenced in the original article (Exim v 4.10).
Not much to see here......

Peter

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