On Sun, Jun 25, 2000 at 09:31:20PM +0200,
robert rotman <rotman@???> is thought to have said:
>
> hello,
>
> I'm still in doubt with frozen messages...
>
> for example i have a message with following header:
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> Remote sender: <>
> Recipients:
> clickitnow@???
>
> P Received: from exim by mail.xxx.xx with local (Exim 3.14 #1)
> id 135YMk-0007U3-00
> for clickitnow@???; Fri, 23 Jun 2000 20:39:46 +0200
> F From: info@one_local_doma.in
> T To: clickitnow@???
> Subject: Re: Mercury and Digest 2000.06.22
> In-Reply-To: <20000623181646.893ADAE76C@www.witch.de>
> I Message-Id: <E135YMk-0007U3-00@???>
> Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 20:39:46 +0200
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> clickitnow@??? says "USER UNKNOWN" but the "From-adress" is ok:
>
> so my question:
>
> why doesn't exim send the error-message to the from-field?
>
>
> robert
Because the envelope from of the message is "<>" and Exim doesn't generate
a bounce to a null sender (because in cases of legitimate mail a sender of
"<>" denotes an error message being returned to sender or some other mail
from the remote MTA).
You might want to look into the receiver_verify option to prevent this
mail from ever getting to your queue. When the to recipient address
doesn't exist, the message will be rejected during the SMTP session.
Tabor
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Tabor J. Wells twells@???
Fsck It! Just another victim of the ambient morality
