Yes this is sort of correct. I am using a mail system called hivemail.com
Basically, the program receives mail through a catch-all address that pipes
the mail to a PHP script that either adds the message to the db or sends
back a bounced error message via the php mail() function. So, exim thinks
that I am the sender of the mails and when they fail it sends all bounced
messages to my admin account.
They way I see it, is that there are three ways to handle this.
Tell exim to send all error messages back to the sender (in this case my php
script (nobody@???)) instead of my admin account
(account_name@hostname).
Stop all e-mail that has a faulty sender address (this is what I thought the
sender_verify option did, but it doesn't seem to work)
Third is to create as you said a director that checks if the user exists.
This is why I needed the mysql connection as my user list is in a mysql
database. Not really sure how to do this as I am afraid that re-compiling
exim will break my cpanel installation.
Really appreciate your help!
Michael
On 5/1/03 23.39, "Nico Erfurth" <masta@???> wrote:
> Michael Roterman wrote:
>
>> Nico, I followed your advice on the sender_verify but it doesn't seem to
>> help. I am receiving about 300 junk mails per hour so I am kind of desperate
>> to solve this!
>
> Hmmm?
> Please explain the problem again....
> You accepted a mail, but the user does not exist on your system?
> So the mail bounces?
> But the bounce will never reach the sender, because the sender was
> faked? Correct?
>
> And you use a PHP-script to save the mail into a mysql database (btw,
> this IS sick).
>
> Ok, as this is exim3, your best bet is to use a verify_only director,
> which knows somehow (from a db-dump) which user exists, if the user does
> NOT exist, it will fail, the director also needs the no_more setting.
> Then enable receiver verification, and hope that this works, but maybe
> another (exim3)-guru can give you a better advise. Sorry, but my
> knowledge of exim3 is a "bit" rusty.
>
> Nico
>
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