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Author: Tony Finch
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To: David Woodhouse
CC: Juergen Weiss \[Netzland GmbH\], exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Dont tell the client that user does not exist at smtp time ?
On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 12:05 +0100, Juergen Weiss [Netzland GmbH] wrote:
> >
> >Is there a configuration to avoid this behaviour ?
>
> There is, but in general you should avoid it. If you accept mail from a
> faked address which is addressed to a non-existent user, and then you
> generate a bounce to that faked address, you are making yourself part of
> the problem.


Actually it's normal to turn off recipient verification for submission
clients (as opposed to MX clients) because of MUAs' bad error handling.
In the default configuration you would move the
    accept hosts = +relay_from_hosts
to a point immediately after
    require verify = sender


Tony.
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