Re: [Exim] sender callout failing

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: David Saez
CC: Nico Erfurth, exim-users@exim.org
Subject: Re: [Exim] sender callout failing
On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, David Saez wrote:

> Ok, I have re-read the documentation and it's clear how callout works
> but maybe where it says "Exim makes SMTP connections to the remote
> hosts, to test whether the address is acceptable" it will be more
> concise to say "whether the address is acceptable and the remote
> server accepts bounces"


Good idea. Thank you.

> (yes, i never tought a server could not accept bounces)


You haven't lived! There are many mis-configured servers like that.
Originally, they were mostly just broken Sendmail configurations, but
these days it seems to be mostly caused by misguided managers who don't
understand SMTP.

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