On Fri, 11 Feb 2000, Mike Richardson wrote:
> When exim processes an incoming message it looks like it waits
> until after the message body (DATA) is received before doing the
> sender verify check on the sender's address. If it fails it returns
> the 451 error message at that point.
Please RTFM, specifically section 42.2. It is all explained in great
detail.
> Has anyone else had this problem? Does it sound reasonable? Is
> Exim's behaviour consistent with any RFCs?
The RFCs don't mention verification. However, they do permit error codes
to be sent after the end of the data.
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