Bug#429891: exim_checkaccess vs. banned_domains

[Marc Haber]

On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 12:18:21PM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> If somewhere in one's configuration, one has
>    banned_domains:*.hinet.net
> exim_checkaccess(8) will still say "Accepted"
> (at least on mark at symonds.net's  system. CC him if details are needed,
> I don't have the details.)

Submitting a bug report without knowing details wastes time. Yours,
and mine. Please try to be more helpful next time. I cannot reproduce
the issue, but since Mark and you haven't given much information, it
might be possible that I am trying to reproduce it the wrong way.

> Also it seems a shame that exim says "User unknown" while the real
> problem is logged only in mainlog. Please just say the more honest
> "Not going to tell you what went wrong", instead of the dishonest
> "User unknown"!
> http://www.exim.org/mail-archives/exim-users/Week-of-Mon-20040927/msg00199.html
> http://www.exim.org/mail-archives/exim-users/Week-of-Mon-20040927/msg00201.html

I do not see any connetion to this issue here. If you want to complain
about something unconnected, please open a dedicated bug report to
help tracking, otherwise please be more clear in what you consider the
issue here.

Generally, exim ACLs do have the log and message modifier to control
what's being logged and what's being returned to the other side of the
SMTP session, and in the absence of more clear instructions, exim is
intentionally vague to avoid disclosure of local filtering policy to a
malicious mail sender who might want to find out about the filtering
policy to circumvent it.

Greetings
Marc

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