Well thanks for the help, it worked perfect (receiver_verify)...
Next time I will consult the manual more extensively before running
to exim-users, sorry.
----- Original Message -----
From: Nigel Metheringham
To: Gavin Dunne
Cc: exim-users@???
Sent: Monday, February 26, 2001 2:47 PM
Subject: Re: [Exim] Return Mail Problem
gdunne@??? said:
> When I send a message from an outside SMTP server on one of my domains
> with a bogus local-part exim accepts the mail,
See receiver_verify in the manual
http://www.exim.org/exim-html-3.20/doc/html/spec_11.html#SEC321
> and attempts to send
> the Reply-To address
Nope. Exim *never* ever looks at the reply-to: - thats for MUAs not
MTAs. Exim will send bounces to the envelope sender address.
> an email stating the problem etc... But when exim
> tries to send it for some reason the MAIL FROM: gets screwed up like
> so:
> SMTP>> MAIL FROM:<> SIZE=4404
That is a perfectly valid line for a bounce message sent to an ESMTP
capable host. If the recipient host can't take it then have it burnt -
its either terminally broken in not taking RFC821 required sender
addresses or its advertising ESMTP and not implementing it. In either
way either the software needs replacing or the box needs severe
physical modification with an axe.
> Any advice on how to fix this up is apprciated, or if someone could
> tell me how to make it so exim will just not accept mail for
> non-recognized local-part would be good too, until than I will be
> looking through the manual for possible solutions. Thanks.
Without being more than usually rude, we seem to be getting a very high
proportion of requests on the list now showing a complete ignorance of
even basic mail handling. The internet is doomed - abondon network now.
Nigel.
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