On Tue, 2002-06-25 at 16:23, Cole Tuininga wrote:
> I have an exim server that's doing something rather peculiar. If it
> receives a message for a local user (via smtp) that also has recipients
> that would be remote, it tries to handle the delivery to the remote
> recipients as well.
Is it being passed the remote recipients in the SMTP transaction? If so
it is the sending system that is at fault.
Otherwise there is the strange smell of one of these content/virus
scanners that was written by an utter incompetent and uses the header
recipients to send a scanned message on to.
> For example, let's say the server in question is example.com. If I
> (colet@???) send a message to legit_localpart@???,
> and CC/BCC/TO colet@???, when example.com receives the
> message, it will also try to forward it onto colet@???.
> I have host_accept_relay set for 127.0.0.1 and my local subnet - I don't
> "think" that should affect anything though?
I think you need to look at how the message is being originally injected
and routed.
Nigel.
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