Re: [Exim] 550 Administrative prohibition

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Author: John Burnham
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To: Ruth Ivimey-Cook
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] 550 Administrative prohibition
Ruth Ivimey-Cook wrote:

>FWIW, The original issue - posting "Administrative prohibition" in response
>to some mail format error, is something I have occasionally found very
>irritating. For example, a friend recently sent me a mail that had been CCd
>to 20 or so others. One of those other addresses was badly formatted, so
>exim bounced the hole thing with this 550 error. The sender (not
>unreasonably) didn't know what had gone wrong -- eventually I found out when
>he mentioned it on the phone.
>
>Can we have some way to include more detail in such responses?
>
>
>

You mean like setting smtp_return_error_details to true ? Or by using
message = in acls ?
John