RE: [Exim] Forwarding Frozen Messages

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Autor: o.cook
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A: ph10
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Assumpte: RE: [Exim] Forwarding Frozen Messages
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Philip Hazel [mailto:ph10@cus.cam.ac.uk]
> Sent: 10 October 2000 20:30
> To: o.cook@???
> Cc: exim-users@???
> Subject: Re: [Exim] Forwarding Frozen Messages
>
>
> On Tue, 10 Oct 2000 o.cook@??? wrote:
>
> > I have a frozen bounce message on one of my servers running
> Exim that won't
> > deliver the email because the sender's address was unroutable
> > (<NRG710@???>... Sender domain must exist).
> The bounce was
> > generated by a machine running Sendmail MTA. I'd quite like
> to forward this
> > bounce message to postmaster@??? to alert them about
> it. What's the
> > best way of doing that? I was guessing at a -M? option, but
> couldn't find
> > one in the spec.
>
> There's an option called -Mar which allows you to add a new recipient
> address to a message. What I do is to add my own address, poke the
> message to get it delivered to me, and then forward it from
> my MUA with
> a covering note.


Thanks. I'll bear this in mind for the next time.

> But I agree that in this particular case, the message almost
> certainly
> has nothing whatsoever to do with ersfa1.bham.ac.uk. There
> has been an
> increase in spam with forged senders in .ac.uk recently.


The message body looked very authentic, so I contacted the postmaster for
bham.ac.uk
and it turns out that one of their users had a misconfiguration in his/her
MUA.

Regards,

Ollie