Re: [Exim] "user unknown" retry-time?

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Volker Trox
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] "user unknown" retry-time?
On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Volker Trox wrote:

> I have the following problem:
> We had a system crash last night. Exim was unable to do resolve some user
> names and so messages bounced with "unknown local part", that is an
> permanent error.
>
> In smail there was an "errors"-directory these mails came in and I could
> restore the mails by copying them into the "input"-directory - successfully
> delivered.


No, Exim does not save bounced messages. (On some systems, the discs
would fill up very rapidly!) In fact, if you have set receiver_verify,
it won't even have received the messages.

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Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service,
ph10@???      Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714.