Re: [Exim] Odd reject question.

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Odd reject question.
On Thu, 23 Dec 1999, Peter Radcliffe wrote:

> This case is some mail sent from moek.pir.net, Cc:ed to the forwarding
> address. Eventually it came back to moek and was rejected on a bad sender.
>
> I don't understand why ... this machine has pir.net as a local domain
> and is also an authorative name server for pir.net. I can't think of
> any reason for this to happen.


When verifying an address in a local domain, the local part is going to
be checked. Do you do anything in the directors that might give a
temporary error, e.g. LDAP lookup, test for NFS files that might not be
present?


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