I see things clearer now, and in addition, for the original problem i
had (sending a "$user does not exist at $domain" mail back to the
sender) i found an example configuration, which - after some
modifications - works perfectly!
Thanks again
Helmut
Philip Hazel schrieb: > On Wed, 22 Oct 2003, Helmut wrote:
>
>
>>after a couple of tryings and reading the documentation (but may be not the
>>right parts of it) i am confused about when a routers fails and when it
>>declines.
>>(When the precondition(s) fail(s) it fails but when does it decline?)
>
>
> When a precondition fails, the router is not run at all. Exim skips to
> the next router. This is not "fail".
>
>
>>Can someone explain (a fool like) me, when a router is running but
>>declining?
>
>
> When a router does run (all the preconditions succeed), one of the
> possible results is "decline", which means "I might have been able to
> handle this address, but when I went and looked things up, I found that
> I could not", e.g. a dnslookup router looks in the DNS and finds
> nothing.
>
> If a router returns "fail" it means "I recognize this address, and it
> should be bounced" e.g. a redirect router finding a :fail: item in an
> alias file.
>
> Does that help?
>
