Re: [Exim] : fail: messages not working

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Author: Fernando Sanchez
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To: Ken Olum
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] : fail: messages not working
Ken Olum wrote:
> Should a message included with :fail: in an alias file be returned to
> an SMTP client? All I get is "550 unknown user". I found the
> documentation hard to understand -- it claims that the message would be
> included in response to VRFY but didn't explain a situation with RCPT.
> I'm running Exim 4.14.
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>             Ken

It does not quite make sence to me use the alias file to make a message
returned to the sender, I would rather use a filter perhaps, you can
specify on the system filter that if the recipient is "joe" then fail
with an specific reason, check the filter documentation.

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