Re: [exim] Multiple rcpt to log entries

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Author: Fred Viles
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Multiple rcpt to log entries
On 29 Sep 2004 at 0:15, Steve Falla wrote about
    "[exim] Multiple rcpt to log entries":


|...
| My problem is that totally against the specification, I am seeing logs
| that are marking multiple
| deliveries all with a =>
|
| eg
|
| 18:47:26 1CCM4T-0002Rj-2x <= <> H=(mail.somewhere.com) [IP Address ......
| 18:47:26 1CCM4T-0002Rj-2x => user1@??? R=remote T=r.....
| 18:47:26 1CCM4T-0002Rj-2x -> user2@??? R=remote T=remote_smtp
| H=host......


Hmm. I'd guess "domain1.com" and "domain2.com" are really the same
name, or if not both domains are handled by the same MX host.

| 18:47:30 1CCM4T-0002Rj-2x => user3@??? R=remote T=remote_smtp
| H=host2.....


Whereas "domain3.com" really is a different domain handled by a
different MX host.

| 18:47:30 1CCM4T-0002Rj-2x Completed

|...
| Is this a bug with Exim, or is the documentation just wrong?


Neither, AFAICT from the obfuscated information you posted.

| From website documentation:
|
| 45.7
|
| When more than one address is included in a single delivery (for
| example, two SMTP RCPT commands in one transaction) the second and
| subsequent addresses are flagged with "->" instead of "=>". When two or
| more messages are delivered down a single SMTP connection, an asterisk
| follows the IP address in the log lines for the second and subsequent
| messages.


Your example is showing a message being relayed to multiple remote
hosts. It seems likely that the *deliverys* (outgoing SMTP sessions)
were actually separate. You are perhaps confusing "single reception"
with "single delivery"?

- Fred