On Wed, 26 Sep 2001, Tabor J. Wells wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 09:06:46PM -0400,
> David Corbin <dcorbin@???> is thought to have said:
>
> > 1) Yes, I HUPped it.
> > 2) for the record, I have the "receiver_verify = true" in the main
> > configurations section. I assume that this is correct.
>
> Yes
>
> > 3) I'm not concerned about recieve from bad IP addresses, it's when the
> > destination email address is bad, and the senders email address is bad.
> >
> > I did "exim -d9 -bt ebmaster@???", and got the output shown below. It
> > seems to me that yes, it knows it can't deliver the message, but when I do a
> > live test, the main log shows (and in my test, I get) a "returning message
> > to sender". Thus, I say something is still not right, and I'm looking for
> > pointers
>
> You're misunderstanding the purpose of these testing commands.
>
> -bt tells you what exim would do if it received an email for that address.
> -bh <IP address> simulates a SMTP address from that IP address. If you do
> that, and you do the SMTP session you should see a 550 returned after
> entering "RCPT TO: <ebmaster@???>". It does not necessarily matter
> what IP address you use (at least for testing this).
>
> The point is that if you have receiver_verify set and you've HUP'd the
> daemon, then you will not accept mail for that address only to bounce them
> later. They'll never make it on to your queue in the first place.
At least not from remote hosts - perhaps he is testing using the local
sendmail interface?
>
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