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

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Autor: Philip Hazel
Datum:  
To: Gabriel Ricard
CC: John Dalbec, Exim Users Mailing List
Betreff: Re: [Exim] HELP! exim 3 address rewriting problem
On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, Gabriel Ricard wrote:

> This is what 'exim -d9 -bt madsen@???' tells me:


<snip>

> madsen@??? is undeliverable:
>    unrouteable mail domain "uolinectis.com.ar"


That means Exim thinks it cannot deliver to that address and will bounce
it.

> The email is generated by our system, so I know it is not spam. It is
> being sent to madsen@???, and in this case, I know this
> address is incorrect, and instead of the message bouncing, it instead
> somehow winds up at madsen@???, which goes to a catch-all
> account for the imaxsales.net domain. This has happened for all
> non-existent email addresses our system has sent email to.


Something odd must be happening that is not shown up by the
straightforward -bt test you did. Have you got a system filter
installed, for example? In order to check this out more, you'll have to
run an actual delivery with debugging. For example

exim -d9 madsen@???
Subject: Testing

This is a test message; please ignore.
.

(note the terminating dot).

> Which is the recommended version of exim 4 for production use? I tried
> one version on a dev server, but had some difficulties with it, so I
> have not deployed exim 4 on this mail server yet.


As far as I am concerned, the latest release is always the "recommended"
one. :-) Currently 4.20.


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