[EXIM] Please excuse this bizarre method of communication

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Author: Tony Earnshaw
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To: Exim
Subject: [EXIM] Please excuse this bizarre method of communication
Richard G. Duvall wrote:

> Tony,


> Can you help me figure out how to setup exim to autoreply to incoming
> email for users who have a .vacation file in their home directories? That
> is, my users would place the body of the message they want to send in the
> autoreplies in a .vacation file. Then, when they are sent an email
> message, exim would autoreply to the sender, with the contents of that
> .vacation file in the body of the message.


First, I'm going to do a test to see if your mail server accepts this
mail. We have ISP-generated DNS reverse lookup problems, which won't be
fixed for a week or so ... this is why you haven't heard from me
before.

No, it doesn't:

998-04-02 09:47:47 0yKeiv-0005Al-00 SMTP error from remote mailer after
RCPT TO : <rgduvall@???>: host
greymalkin.greymalkin.com[206.163.149.219]: 550 rejected: administrative
prohibition (failed to find sending host name from IP address)
1998-04-02 09:47:48 0yKeiv-0005Al-00 **
rgduvall@??? R=lookuphost T=remote_smtp: SMTP
error from remote mailer after RCPT TO:
<rgduvall@???>: host
greymalkin.greymalkin.com[206.163.149.219]: 550 rejected: administrative
prohibition (failed to find sending host name from IP address)1998-04-02
09:47:48 0yKeiy-0005An-00 <= <> R=0yKeiv-0005Al-00 U=exim P=local S=2
507
1998-04-02 09:47:48 0yKeiv-0005Al-00 Error message sent to
tony@??? 1998-04-02 09:47:48 0yKeiv-0005Al-00 Completed
1998-04-02 09:47:49 0yKeiy-0005An-00 => tony <tony@???>
D=localuser T=local_delivery 1998-04-02 09:47:49 0yKeiy-0005An-00
Completed

Sorry, can't help you until this problem has been fixed - we've got new
IP numbers, but these have yet to be approved by domain-registry.nl and
Internic. We do have a perfectly servicable vacation routine for Exim,
which we use ourselves, and I'll mail this as soon as possible.

Tony


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