It took some time, but I finally found an answer to the question I
posted. If anyone else is having the same problem, the solution
is to set "receiver_verify = true" in /etc/exim.conf. Exim will then
return a 550 status to the RCPT TO command in the following example.
John Kuhn wrote:
> telnet
Sorry for the duplicate message. This one has a useful Subject.
Jonathan,
Thanks for your response. I checked my exim.conf again and did not find
anything wrong in it. I have included a few of the values below.
Assume:
my true IP address: 192.1.1.1
my true machine name: badhost.corp.c
CAVEAT : I am a programmer - not a sysadmin. This is the best I can
muster, but it may not be good enough. :)
A (clipped) copy of your exim.conf file would have helped...
This may or may not be of help, but since I recently locked down a
mail server, I can at least say it worked for me... This is
This story begins on an ancient R3000 based SGI Indigo running IRIX 5.3.
Due to my own negligence, this machine had open mail relaying. One night
recently a spammer discovered this machine and used it to send spam.
The following morning, I had a few e-mails addressed to me kindly pointing
out my o
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