On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, Tamas TEVESZ wrote:
> just played a bit with sender_verify, and while doing so that upon
> unsucccessful verification (played with a yahoo address as sender i
> had problems with lately), i noticed exim telling in the debug log
> that the address could not be verified, so "giving error after DATA".
That's the rather complicated way that Exim 3 does things. This is
history. Originally it was done that way so that the message's headers
could be logged (goes back to the days when most cases were errors and
misconfigurations, not spam).
Exim 4 doesn't do it that way any more. A sender verification error at
RCPT time gives the error right away.
> question is what does it mean in terms of queueing and the like - is
> the message coming in being written to disk then discarded, or is
> it just piped to nirvana, just as if the recipient was :blackhole:'ed
> ?
It is discarded.
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