Re: [EXIM] mail bouncing

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: pollywog
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [EXIM] mail bouncing
On Tue, 27 Oct 1998, pollywog wrote:

> I am curious about something. In my exim configuration, I have sender_reject
> set and it works in the sense that unless I have an AOL user in an exempt list,
> any mail from AOL addresses is rejected. It does not really "bounce" back to
> the sender, since I am on a dialup and I use Fetchmail to get mail for my
> domain. Fetchmail then delivers it to Exim.
>
> Since the rejected mail cannot bounce in the usual way, what exactly happens to
> it?


What do the Exim logs say? What do Fetchmail's logs say? If Fetchmail
delivers it to Exim using SMTP, then Fetchmail is going to get an SMTP
error for each rejection. Perhaps it is just throwing such messages
away?

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Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service,
ph10@???      Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714.



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