[vox-tech] exim / rbl question. a mystery.

[Peter Jay Salzman]

the wierd thing is that the lines still exist in exim.conf, so i'd expect it
to work, whether the exim package asks about it or not.

or else i'd expect exim to issue a warning that it doesn't work.
or else i'd expect exim to be broken.

or something.  ANYTHING.

or is it really "good policy" for a program to silently fail reading lines
from its configuration files?

bleah!!!

pete


begin Matt Roper <matt@mattrope.com> 
> I did a fresh install of Debian on my laptop the other day and noticed
> that it no longer asks about the RBL when Exim is setup.  According to
> /usr/share/doc/exim/changelog.Debian.gz, it appears that RBL no longer
> works:
> 
>   * debian/config: remove RBL questions (as ORBS no longer exists, and
>     MAPS now charges); include a comment about RBL instead (Closes:
>     #104524)
>     
> Matt
>       
> On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 11:32:02PM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> > dear lugod,
> > 
> > when i installed debian and configured exim, i was under the impression that
> > exim was configured to reject any email from an IP address listed in the maps
> > rbl database.
> > 
> > this evening i was reading the map-rbl site, and came across:
> > 
> > 	Testing Your RBLSM Configuration
> > 	Russell Nelson has put together an auto-responder that you may use to test
> > 	your RBLSM implementation.  His instructions are:
> > 	
> > 	Send mail to nelson-rbl-test@crynwr.com from the server whose RBLSM block
> > 	you are testing.  Expect one reply from ns.crynwr.com with the SMTP
> > 	conversation.  If you get another reply from linux.crynwr.com, your RBLSM
> > 	filter is broken.
> > 
> > i followed the instructions and apparently, i'm still getting mail from
> > blacklisted addresses -- the 2nd email from linux.crynwr.com arrived.
> > 
> > next, i looked at exim.conf:
> > 
> > 	# Exim contains support for the Realtime Blocking List (RBL) that is being
> > 	# maintained as part of the DNS. See http://maps.vix.com/rbl/ for
> > 	# background. Uncommenting the following line will make Exim reject mail
> > 	# from any host whose IP address is blacklisted in the RBL at maps.vix.com.
> > 
> > 	rbl_domains = rbl.maps.vix.com
> > 	rbl_reject_recipients = true
> > 	rbl_warn_header = false
> > 
> > this looks good to me.  can someone guess why i'm still getting email that
> > should be rejected by the rbl database?
> > 
> > thanks!
> > pete
> > 
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