Philip,
Thanks for that. I now get the error message saying "invalid recipient"
queued up to the sender. What I would really really really like is to have
that error message sent to the local postmaster on my server as well as to
the sender - we have someone here monitoring these emails. Is this possible
? I've had a look in spec.txt but I cannot see any settings that might
allow me to do this, so if it can be done I guess it needs more than just
one setting.
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Gary Mason
Renaissance Technical Services
-----Original Message-----
From: exim-users-admin@??? [
mailto:exim-users-admin@exim.org]On
Behalf Of Philip Hazel
Sent: 30 November 2001 10:48
To: Gary Mason
Cc: exim-users@???
Subject: Re: [Exim] Unknown local recipients
On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Gary Mason wrote:
> I am using Exim 3.33. I would like all emails to addresses that are not
set
> up with mailboxes to create the standard 'unknown recipient' email message
> and send it to the postmaster. I have followed the instructions in FAQ
> Q0403 but all I get is frozen messages in the outbound queue. Is this
> documented anywhere else, or can someone point me in the right direction.
Q0403 routes unknown addresses to a central server, not to a specific
address.
To do what you want, you must allow the address to fail, but on the way,
change its "errors address" so that the bounce goes to the postmaster.
If you put this director last, it should do the job. However, I have not
tested this, so it may not be absolutely right.
unknown_to_postmaster:
driver = forwardfile
data = $local_part@$domain
errors_to = postmaster
What this does is to "forward" the address to itself, but change the
place where the bounce message is sent. The child address will then be
re-processed, but the second time round it will skip this director
because it has already handled it. So the address fails and the bounce
should go to the postmaster.
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Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service,
ph10@??? Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714.
