On 28-Oct-98 Philip Hazel wrote:
> 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?
Exim logs (rejectlog) say the messages was rejected and it seems the messages
are just thrown away :)
thanks
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Andrew
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