RE: [Exim] 550 Administrative prohibition

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Author: Peter Bowyer
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To: exim-users
Subject: RE: [Exim] 550 Administrative prohibition
Ruth Ivimey-Cook said:
> 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?


That message is generated by 'deny' actions in ACLs - the content of each
instance of the message is under the control of the server administrator.
The 'administrative prohibition' text is the default if it isn't
overridden in the Exim config.

Peter