Re: [EXIM] failed addresses

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Romy Arslan
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [EXIM] failed addresses
On Wed, 25 Nov 1998, Romy Arslan wrote:

> I am new at administering exim and I noticed a couple of days ago that I
> am getting a lot of frozen messages in the queue. What I don't understand
> is that if a user sends a message to let's say xxx@??? and
> aub.edi.lb is an unexistant domain the message is frozen instead of being
> bounced back to the original sender with the error : failed address or
> something.


It should be bounced back to the sender.

> Is there a way to do this instead of manually forcing exim to give up on
> the message ?


Depends on why it isn't being returned to the sender. If you post the
actual error message from the Exim log, somebody on the list might be
able to give you more help.

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



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