[Exim] How to force delivery of a message?

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Author: Richard P. Groenewegen
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To: exim-users
Subject: [Exim] How to force delivery of a message?
Hi,

There is a message which cannot be delivered because there was no
valid return address. Basically exim says:

You cannot send mail to this user unless YOU have a valid email
address.

Well, this is a desirable behaviour for me, but having said this I
still would like to deliver the message.

I tried to deliver it with exim -M -v <id>, but got the same errors
(below is a piece of the output). What is the best way to deliver
this message?

(I've blanked some pieces out with *'s:)

# exim -v -M <id>
delivering message 12cU4L-0001Im-00
Connecting to mx2.xs4all.nl [194.109.6.49] ... connected
SMTP<< 220 smtp5.xs4all.nl ESMTP Sendmail 8.9.3/8.9.3; Wed, 5 Apr 2000 10:45:46 +0200 (CEST)
SMTP>> EHLO spec

  SMTP<< 250-smtp5.xs4all.nl Hello mail@****.a2000.nl [24.132.51.204], pleased to meet you
         250-8BITMIME
         250-SIZE 15000000
         250-ONEX
         250-ETRN
         250-XUSR
         250 HELP

SMTP>> MAIL FROM:<***@***.xs4all.nl> SIZE=1830

SMTP<< 250 <***@***.xs4all.nl>... Sender ok
SMTP>> RCPT TO:<***@xs4all.nl>

SMTP<< 451 <***@xs4all.nl>... You cannot send mail to this user unless YOU have a valid email address: <***@***.xs4all.nl>
LOG: 0 MAIN
...

Richard
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