On Sun, 28 Feb 1999, Gary Palmer wrote:
> I've got an exim 2.10 box in production (with no local deliveries enabled ...
> its just a relay box), and have noticed that locally generated bounce messages
> stay in the queue. After forcing a queue run manually with -v to watch it, it
> seems that the remote MTA is giving 5xx series errors. Exim leaves these
> messsages in the queue (frozen I believe). Its this because there is no LDA
> configured, or have I fluffed up some other part of the configuration?
If the remote MTA is giving 5xx errors, then the incoming message which
caused the bounce had an invalid sender address. This is very common
with spam, sadly. There isn't much you can do about it, though you can
set ignore_errmsg_errors[_after] to cause them to get thrown away [after
a time].
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