On Wednesday, July 9, 2003, at 09:13 AM, Philip Hazel wrote:
> 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).
Interestingly, this actually generated a bounce message and did not
change the email address. We do use sendmail on one web server to
buffer mail before it is sent over to exim on the main mail server. Is
it possible that sendmail is the real culprit here? Now that I recall,
I don't believe this ever happened before we started using sendmail to
buffer the messages.
>> 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.
I'll have to try this version out on our dev servers.
- Gabriel
