Actually, receiver_verify verifies ALL addresses given in RCPT TO:,
regardless of wether they are local or remote..
In the case of this specific address, the domain ghs.ssd.k12.wa.us has
neither an MX nor an A record, so it fails verification.
Eg, that isnt a valid email address - there is nowhere to deliver it to.
If it is supposed to be (and there is no typo or other miscommunication
of the address, then someone has made a mistake in a DNS file somewhere.
Its far more likely the owner of that address just made a mistake when
they gave it to you, or that you made an error when writing it down or
entering it or something.
On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> I sent a mail from my workstation (rainier) which is not running Exim to
> my Exim 3.12 server. Exim logged:
>
> 2001-09-18 00:40:54 verify failed for SMTP recipient protozoa@???
> from <reed@???> H=rainier [192.168.0.2]
> 2001-09-18 00:40:54 unexpected disconnection while reading SMTP command
> from rainier [192.168.0.2]
>
> But it didn't have any other identifying information.
>
> My exim config does have "receiver_verify". But I understand that this is
> so recipients are verified as they are received from remote host. In this
> case, the email address is somewhere else.
>
> I am unclear on this.
>
> Does this log message indicate that my Exim thought it was local?
>
> And if so, why?
>
> Or does this mean that the remote host (whoever is responsible) said this?
> And if so, why don't I have a log entry that says the host name that
> reported this?
>
> Also, from looking at my maillog on the workstation (rainier), I see that
> nothing was logged for that email; this indicates that it wasn't
> successful. (I'll need to tell that MTA to indicate problems also.)
>
> I read a message[1] from Dr. Hazel that said this "verify failed" is
> written after Exim has sent a 500 error message. I never received any 500
> error message and I didn't see any reference to this in the logs. (I may
> have this out of context or misunderstood.)
>
> Jeremy C. Reed
> http://www.isp-faq.com/ -- find answers to your questions
>
> [1]
> http://www.exim.org/mailman/htdig/exim-users/Week-of-Mon-20010212/author.html#24121
>
>
>
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