> Hi I'm running Exim 4.14 I have aliases set with :fail: however the
> message after the :fail: is not being returned during the SMTP phase.
> They're getting the generic "unknown user" from the ACL acl_check_rcpt.
> My aliases router is:
>
> system_aliases:
> driver = redirect
> allow_fail
> allow_defer
> data = ${lookup{$local_part}dbm{/etc/exim/db/aliases.db}}
> file_transport = address_file
> pipe_transport = address_pipe
>
> How do I get the fail message returned during SMTP time in Exim4?
>
> Rule testing returns the appropriate text, and the SMTP transactions log
> to MAIN with a 550 and the appropriate text.
>
> Please let me know if I have omitted a significant peice of information.
What does your ACL look like that verifies the recipient?
You should have something like:
accept domains = +local_domains
endpass
verify = recipient
If there's a message = line there, you might want to add $acl_verify_message
to it.
