Re: [Exim] HELP! exim 3 address rewriting problem

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Gabriel Ricard
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] HELP! exim 3 address rewriting problem
On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, Gabriel Ricard wrote:

> This is the third time I've mailed this to the list, perhaps someone
> can actually help me out with it this time.


I must confess that I tend to skip over pretty well any posting in which
I see "Exim 3" nowadays. I've just forgotten too much.

> Is there a default rule in exim 3 to rewrite an email address and
> change its domain if the email address bounces?


No, nor in Exim 4 either.

> There are no rules in the rewrite section of our config file, yet we
> get instances where an email that was destined for
> randomuser@??? will wind up being sent to
> randomuser@???. I have no idea how this is happening. Could
> this have some thing to do with the retry rules?


Most unlikely. Could it be that randomuser@??? has forwarded
her mail to randomuser@????

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