Author: Johan Almqvist Date: To: exim-users Subject: Re: [Exim] frozen messages - only for my intrest
On Sun, Jun 25, 2000 at 04:03:56PM -0400, Tabor J. Wells wrote: > 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.
Actually, the RFC's say that mail from <> must be accepted. Many MTAs send
bounces from that address.
