Re: [Exim] ACL is NULL: implicit DENY

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Daniel Cooper
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] ACL is NULL: implicit DENY
On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, Daniel Cooper wrote:

> Problem: When I issue the rcpt to: SMTP command I get "550
> Administrative prohibition" in the SMTP session, and "ACL is NULL:
> implicit DENY" in the exim debug.


That means no ACL is defined.

> I have just compiled exim 4.10 from source, and I am running it on my
> Slackware 8.1 host. I am running exim as user=smtpd group=smtpd. The
> command I run to get exim going is: exim -bd -d all -q15m I am using
> the default exim.conf file.


Looks like some how your Exim is not seeing that configuration file.
What is the output from

exim -bP configure_file

? Is is the correct file? What is the output from

exim -bP acl_smtp_rcpt

? That should name the ACL is is going to use for RCPT commands.


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