Bug#451633: exim4-config: whitelist should override SPF and DNSBL checks

Miklos Szeredi miklos at szeredi.hu
Sat Nov 17 16:21:57 UTC 2007


Package: exim4-config
Version: 4.63-17
Severity: normal

A host added to local_host_whitelist should prevent SPF and DNSBL
checks to be made.

Currently it is impossible for an SPF enabled host to whitelist
forwarders which do not rewrite the sender address.  See:

  http://www.openspf.org/FAQ/Forwarding

-- Package-specific info:
Exim version 4.63 #1 built 20-Jan-2007 10:40:39
Copyright (c) University of Cambridge 2006
Berkeley DB: Sleepycat Software: Berkeley DB 4.3.29: (September  6, 2005)
Support for: crypteq iconv() IPv6 GnuTLS move_frozen_messages
Lookups: lsearch wildlsearch nwildlsearch iplsearch cdb dbm dbmnz dsearch nis nis0 passwd
Authenticators: cram_md5 plaintext
Routers: accept dnslookup ipliteral manualroute queryprogram redirect
Transports: appendfile/maildir/mailstore autoreply lmtp pipe smtp
Fixed never_users: 0
Size of off_t: 8
Configuration file is /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated
# /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf
#
[snipped]

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.20-rc7
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages exim4-config depends on:
ii  adduser                       3.102      Add and remove users and groups
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.5.11     Debian configuration management sy

exim4-config recommends no packages.

-- debconf information excluded





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