Philip,
The manual says [page 144] "In the case of an address that is being
verified for the SMTP RCPT or VRFY commands, the text is included in the
SMTP error response ....."
Is this not the case until the new option is available?
John Linn
On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, Philip Hazel wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, j.linn wrote:
>
> > Exim 4.10
>
> > 550 unknown user
> > LOG: H=fkccs.abdn.ac.uk (abdn.a.cuk) [139.133.7.9] F=<j.linn@???>
> > rejected RCPT j.linn@???: norcol.ac.uk is no longer in use. Use
> > j.linn@???
> >
> > Which looks like the message is not sent on the 550 but just logged.
>
> One of the changes that is in the next release of Exim is as follows:
>
> 2. There is a new option called smtp_return_error_details, which defaults
> false. In the default state, Exim uses bland messages such as
> "Administrative prohibition" when it rejects SMTP commands for policy
> reasons. Many sysadmins like this because it gives away little information
> to spammers. However, some other syadmins who are applying strict checking
> policies want to give out much fuller information about failures. Setting
> smtp_return_error_details true causes Exim to be more forthcoming. For
> example, instead of "Administrative prohibition", you might get:
>
> 550-Rejected after DATA: '>' missing at end of address:
> 550 failing address in "From" header is: <user@???
>
> If you want this feature before the official release, you will find it
> in the current testing snapshot.
>
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