On Tue, 25 Aug 1998, Jared Proudfoot wrote:
> I've noticed over the last couple of weeks that exim doesn't appear to be
> bouncing mail addressed to accounts that don't exist on my system. Instead,
> it seems to queue them and retry every few hours.
What do the Exim logs say about those messages? What is on their message
logs? What happens if you run
exim -d9 -M <message id>
on one of them? The answers to those questions should give clues as to
what is happening.
> Anyone know why it would do this? Something I may have done in the
> configuration?
Probably :-)
On Wed, 26 Aug 1998, Griffiths M (ISaCS) wrote:
> You need to set 'receiver_verify = true', so any mail to unknown users
> at your site
> will be rejected by Exim with a :550 User Unknown message.
That is true, but not really relevant to the problem. Messages to
unknown users that are on the spool should get bounced. Even with
receiver_verify set, such messages can be generated by local users.
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