Autor: Peter Bowyer Fecha: A: exim-users Asunto: Re: [exim] Same error again fix_never_user Remote SMTP defer
Silly Billy said: > but i am sending mail from my user not from root ...
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> and again the result is same ... error log below
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> R=dnslookup T=remote_smtp defer (-29): user set for
>> remote_smtp transport is on the fix_never_users list
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> When you compiled Exim, you told it to protect you
> against accidentally running any deliveries as root.
> This is a very sensible security precaution.
You omitted to quote (and presumably, read) the piece of my reply which
told you what you've probably done wrong. I'll paste it below for your
added convenience:
>> Then you attempted to do something dangerous, such as setting 'user =
>> root' on a transport. I don't know why you'd want to do this on an SMTP
>> transport, but it seems that's what you did.
Look at the definition of your 'remote_smtp' transport.