Re: [Exim] 550 errors

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Ron McKeating
CC: Exim-Users (E-mail)
Subject: Re: [Exim] 550 errors
On Mon, 22 Dec 2003, Ron McKeating wrote:

> Hi all, I am a little confused as I thought when exim got a 550 error
> when trying to deliver a message it treated it as a permanent error and
> did not retry. So when I saw this message frozen in the queue and looked
> in the message log I see.
>
> 2003-12-20 20:57:41 SMTP error from remote mailer after RCPT
> TO:<YmSMypFP@???>: host horafeliz-com.mr.outblaze.com
> [205.158.62.181]: 550 No thanks: Account unavailable. Possible Forgery.
>
> This goes on for several days, latest is
> 2003-12-22 16:05:52 ymsmypfp@??? <YmSMypFP@???>
> R=dnslookup T=remote_smtp: SMTP error from remote mailer after RCPT
> TO:<YmSMypFP@???>: host horafeliz-com.mr.outblaze.com
> [205.158.62.181]: 550 No thanks: Account unavailable. Possible Forgery.
> *** Frozen (delivery error message)


The second of those indicates that a bounce message is failing. I'm a
bit surprised that it didn't freeze it the first time.


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