RE: [Exim] How can exim4 get a 554 error but telnet 25 works…

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Hancock, Scott
CC: exim-users
Subject: RE: [Exim] How can exim4 get a 554 error but telnet 25 works?
On Thu, 29 Apr 2004, Hancock, Scott wrote:

> I'm off to battle with their email admin. Where I'll get into the old
> argument, "I get mail from everyone else so it's your problem."
>
> Could you guess why I don't get the error in a telnet session?


Not using pipelining?

Try using Exim's hosts_avoid_esmtp option in your smtp transport.
Disabling ESMTP disables pipelining.

Or it could be message size, I suppose, if their error message is
telling the truth ("could not write to disk" could mean "disk full"?)

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