Package: exim4-config Version: 4.63-3 Severity: minor The man page describing local_host_whitelist could be a little clearer.
First, there is no subhead in the DESCRIPTION section for local_host_whitelist. Second, the fact that this file was only mentioned under local_host_blacklist, along with the text "For convenience, as an additional method to whitelist addresses from being blocked, an explicit whitelist is read in from /etc/exim4/local_host_whitelist. Entries in the whitelist override corresponding blacklist entries. " supported the 2nd of 2 interpretations: 1) if the sending host is on the whitelist, the message will be accepted. 2) if the sending host is on the blacklist and the whitelist, it will not be blocked because of the whitelist, but it might be blocked for other reasons. I think, after looking at the code, that 1) is what is happening. At the moment, it happens to be what I want (in particular, someone is sending me mail from a machine without proper DNS entries). So I think it would be good to give local_host_whitelist a separate entry, and to clarify if interpreation 1, 2, or something else is correct. -- Package-specific info: Exim version 4.63 #1 built 23-Aug-2006 17:28:20 Copyright (c) University of Cambridge 2006 Berkeley DB: Sleepycat Software: Berkeley DB 4.3.29: (September 6, 2005) Support for: crypteq iconv() IPv6 PAM Perl GnuTLS move_frozen_messages Content_Scanning Old_Demime Lookups: lsearch wildlsearch nwildlsearch iplsearch cdb dbm dbmnz dnsdb dsearch ldap ldapdn ldapm mysql nis nis0 passwd pgsql Authenticators: cram_md5 cyrus_sasl plaintext spa Routers: accept dnslookup ipliteral iplookup manualroute queryprogram redirect Transports: appendfile/maildir/mailstore/mbx autoreply lmtp pipe smtp Fixed never_users: 0 Size of off_t: 8 Configuration file is /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (990, 'stable'), (50, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.4.27advncdfs Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages exim4-config depends on: ii adduser 3.97 Add and remove users and groups ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.3 Debian configuration management sy exim4-config recommends no packages. -- debconf information excluded -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]