Author: Ian Eiloart Date: To: Nimish Shah, exim-users CC: Subject: Re: [exim] reg. error message when sending to multiple users in the
To: field.
--On Saturday, October 30, 2004 10:10 pm -0700 Nimish Shah
<novalife@???> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We are using a server with Exim as the mail server. When someone tries
> to send an email message from Outlook with multiple recipients in the
> To: field, the mail client returns an error even if one email address
> is misspelt.
>
> It seems that exim does not even relay the mail to other valid
> recipients, instead returns the mail right there.
>
> Also, the error is generated by outlook itself, rather than an email
> being sent by exim, and the outlook error does not explain the issue
> at all.
>
> Has anybody else experienced this ? Are there any fixes ?
Yes, get the email addresses right.
Exim HAS to reject the invalid address. Then your mail client is faced with
the problem of communicating to you what is going wrong, and guessing
whether you want to fix the problem before or after sending the mail to the
other recipients.
The easiest thing for the mail client to do is hang on to the email until
you've either:
1) fixed the bad address
2) deleted it, and sent to the other recipients anyway
3) decided not to send the email, because the bad address was the most
important recipient (or something).
> --
> Regards,
>
> Nimish Shah.
