Re: [Exim] Re: EXIM and dynamic IP address

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Holger Paschke
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Re: EXIM and dynamic IP address
On Sat, 12 Feb 2000, Holger Paschke wrote:

> But I still have a problem with Exim's error messages, which should be
> delivered locally in my understanding. But they are sent back to the
> rewritten GMX addresses, so Exim uses the smarthost with an unspecified
> MAIL-FROM and fails.


An empty address in MAIL FROM signifies an error message (RFC 821,
1123). No host which is supposed to conform to the RFCs should refuse
such messages.

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