Re: [Exim] : fail: messages not working

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Autor: Kirill Miazine
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A: Ken Olum
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Assumpte: Re: [Exim] : fail: messages not working
Ken Olum wrote:
>    From: Kirill Miazine <km-lists@???>
>    Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 08:35:40 +0200

>
>    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".

>
>    Depends a bit on your ACL settings. My guess is that you have an ACL
>    condition that looks like this:

>
>        accept domains = +local_domains
>           endpass
>           message = unknown user
>           verify = recipient

>
>    If you remove the "message" modifier, you will get the text after
>    ":fail:" instead for aliases that should :fail:.

>
> Yes, that's it. Thanks. I think I just got the code above from the
> default configuration. Unfortunately, if I remove the message, then
> when the user is really unknown, it gives "Unrouteable address", which
> I think is confusing. I guess I can cure it by
>
>           message       = ${if eq{$acl_verify_message}{Unrouteable address} {unknown user} {$acl_verify_message}}

>
> I think it would be nice if the default message were "Unknown user" in
> this context, so that the default configuration could not have the
> "message" line. Failing that it would at least be nice if the
> documentation for the redirect router would explain that you should
> change your ACL setting if you want the message to take effect.


I intentionally did not mention that you would get "Unrouteable
address". This was supposed to force you do actually read a bit of the
documentation. To no luck. :/

What you are looking for is called a generic router option named
"cannot_route_message".

Hope this helps.

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Kirill Miazine, Stud.Jur.
Faculty of Law, University of Oslo