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Re: exim / rbl question



begin Mario Vukelic <mario.vukelic@chello.at> 
> On Fri, 2001-12-14 at 07:41, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> > hi there,
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> > 	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?
> 
> How do you get the mail to exim? If you use fetchmail to pull it from
> your ISP's mail server, it won't work (FAQ at www.exim.conf)
> 
> Kind regards, M.
 
oops, sorry.  i guess that's a very important detail!

email comes directly to my site, dirac.org, which is hooked up to the net via
DSL.  no fetchmail, no ISP's, no .forward.

that's what's so mysterious to me.

do you have any ideas?

pete

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