Re: [EXIM] Warning messages

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Author: John Horne
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [EXIM] Warning messages
On 11-Sep-98 at 14:14:04 Philip Hazel wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Sep 1998, John Horne wrote:
>>
>>    The following address(es) have not yet been delivered:

>>
>>         mjevatt@???

>>
>> To the user this is confusing/wrong; the message was sent to
>> 'mjevatt@???'. The above is the correct envelope address, as
>> specified by our rewriting rules. Is there any way of getting exim to use
>> the
>> To: address instead though?
>
> I see the confusion, but the answer is "No" because MTAs work only on
> envelopes. What with forwarding and aliasing, which can happen on one
> machine which then sends to another machine which then fails, I don't
> know how a struggling MTA can possibly decide how an envelope address
> relates to one of possibly many To: (or Cc:) addresses, if at all.
>

Understood. In which case I think I'll add a bit more text to the message to
explain that the address is correct despite being different to the one they
used.

John.

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