Tony Finch wrote:
>On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, Toralf Lund wrote:
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>> 2. Principally speaking, I'm doing this as a normal (Exim) e-mail
>> user, not as an administrator. Now, I happen to know the root
>> password and have access to the Exim config, as you probably have
>> guessed by now, but I'm still not sure it's right to mess up the
>> global config with all sorts of special cases for my personal needs.
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>It's possible to cause Exim to run .forward files at RCPT time by removing
>the no_verify option from the userforward redirect router. This means that
>users (independent of the sysadmin) can cause messages to be rejected
>rather than bounced. This might be useful in a setup which supports
>local-part suffixes. One reason that the standard configuration does not
>do this is that Exim is running as the exim user at verification time, so
>users must make their .forward files globally readable.
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Hmm. Yeah, maybe that's worth considering... So how would I reject a
message? The "fail" command?
What happens if the .forward file can't be read? Will the address
verification fail? Maybe I could use "ignore_eaccess" to prevent that?
>Tony.
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