On 6 Jan 2003, Jose de Paula Eufrasio Junior wrote:
> I'm getting plenty of these errors on my exim:
>
> 15093 SMTP<< MAIL FROM:<#@[]>
> 15093 LOG: smtp_syntax_error MAIN
> 15093 SMTP syntax error in "MAIL FROM:<#@[]>"
> H=gcsnet.prointernet.com.br [200.194.176.70] domain literals not allowed
>
> The question is, what exim does with these messages? they're bounced?
They are not accepted by the Exim server. The client host still has
control of them, so what happens depends on what it does with them.
> These messages are being forwarded from a qmail machine, like:
>
> postmaster@??? .forwards to central@???
>
> where somedomain.com uses a qmail forward file and otherdomain.com is
> the machine that is giving the errors (the log above).
>
> THEN, the emails are staying in the disk on somedomain.com or they're
> just lost to the void()? :)
It depends on how qmail handles the rejection of the MAIL FROM command.
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