On Fri, 30 May 1997, John Henders wrote:
> The problem was that I misnamed the file that the lsearch was supposed
> to look for. Here is how exim behaves when it can't find the file. Other
> mailers interpret this as a fatal error.
So does Exim! That is why, when looked at from outside, you got
> 1997-05-30 15:37:33 failed to open /etc/exim/etc/reject.relays for linear search:
> No such file or directory
> Connection closed by foreign host.
because Exim just gave up. I can see that (a) writing the message down
the SMTP channel isn't sensible and (b) it might be nicer to close down
the call tidily. I have made a note to see if I can arrange things
better in this circumstance. Thanks for the report.
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