Re: [Exim] not receiving bounce messages with exim

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: delay
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] not receiving bounce messages with exim
On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, delay wrote:

> I am having one problem though. I am unable to receive any bounced

messages. It appears to send the bounce to nobody@??? just
fine. I have nobody configured in the alias file. I can send mail to
nobody directly and receive it with no problems so I think the email
address is set correctly.

> 2002-02-07 23:27:26 16Z5RO-0007bk-00 ** junk@???: unrouteable mail domain "jkfjdskfjslfsdjlf.com"


So it is 16Z5RO-0007bk-00 that has a delivery failure. However, you have
not quoted the arrival line for that message, so what the sender address
was is unknown.

> 2002-02-07 23:27:26 16Z5RO-0007bm-00 <= nobody@??? U=nobody P=local S=617


That's a completely new message, not relevant.

> 2002-02-07 23:27:26 16Z5RO-0007bn-00 <= <> R=16Z5RO-0007bk-00 U=exim P=local S=1627


That's the bounce message coming in, caused by the problem in
16Z5RO-0007bk-00. The bounce message is 16Z5RO-0007bn-00.

> 2002-02-07 23:27:26 16Z5RO-0007bk-00 Error message sent to nobody@???
> 2002-02-07 23:27:26 16Z5RO-0007bk-00 Completed


That tells you what happened to 16Z5RO-0007bk-00.

> 2002-02-07 23:27:26 16Z5RO-0007bd-00 => delay@??? R=lookuphost T=remote_smtp H=mx-ca-2.domain1.com [64.71.166.115]
> 2002-02-07 23:27:26 16Z5RO-0007bd-00 Completed
> 2002-02-07 23:27:26 16Z5RO-0007ba-00 => delay@??? <delay@???> R=lookuphost T=remote_smtp H=mx-pa-1.domain1.com [207.106.49.22]
> 2002-02-07 23:27:26 16Z5RO-0007ba-00 Completed


Those are lines for some other messages.

> 2002-02-07 23:27:26 16Z5RO-0007bn-00 => delay@??? <nobody@???> R=lookuphost T=remote_smtp H=mx-pa-1.domain1.com [207.106.49.22]
> 2002-02-07 23:27:26 16Z5RO-0007bn-00 Completed


Here's the delivery for the bounce message 16Z5RO-0007bn-00. It seems
you have an alias for "nobody@???" which turns it into
"delay@???".


I can't see anything wrong with that.


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