Re: [Exim] Exim bounces

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Johnson, Michael [IT]
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Exim bounces
On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Johnson, Michael [IT] wrote:

>    When a message this a deny by an rbl I would like a nice message to
> be displayed. I did this via the message = " my really long nice message to
> the user"... I have two issues though.
> 1. I would like not to send a bounce if possible but ranter exim spawn an
> email somehow including my message as the body.. .
> 2. If the user doesn't exist it still gives something like this, can this be
> excluded?
> 550 5.1.1 <test@???>... User unknown

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

This line is NOT generated by Exim. Exim does not use extended message
codes such as 5.1.1. There are MTAs that "translate" any 550 message
they receive into "User unknown". I suspect that is what happened to
this message.

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