I have a director
# The expired aliases should come last (or at least very late) since if
# something is expired and later reused, we want the reuse to be hit first.
# so the expired stuff should be way down the priority list.
expired_aliases:
driver = aliasfile
file = /usr/info/exim/tables/aliases_expired
search_type = dbm
modemask=002
user = exim
fairly late in my list of directors.
The aliases file contains, for example, a line like
i.csendes: :fail: Address removed around 08/1998. No known forwarding address
And the dbm file seems to be just fine (built like our other alias files).
It seems to work in test mode:
% bin/exim -bt -v i.csendes@???
i.csendes@??? is undeliverable:
forced failure: Address removed around 08/1998. No known forwarding address
But if I try to deliver mail to that address, I get
[nassau:cc047:~/work]126: telnet euler 25
Trying 138.250.48.9...
Connected to euler.central.cranfield.ac.uk.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 euler.central.cranfield.ac.uk ESMTP Exim 1.92 #2 Wed, 26 Aug 1998
15:57:29 +0100
helo nassau
250 euler.central.cranfield.ac.uk Hello nassau.pegasus.cranfield.ac.uk [138.250.1.183]
mail from: j.goldberg@???
250 <j.goldberg@???> is syntactically correct
rcpt to: i.csendes@???
550 Unknown local part i.csendes in <i.csendes@???>
421 euler.central.cranfield.ac.uk: SMTP command timeout - closing connection
Connection closed by foreign host.
I have hupped the the server.
-j
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