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Author: Mail Delivery System
Date:  
To: root
Subject: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender
This message was created automatically by mail delivery software.

A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its
recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:

  xxx@???
    local delivery failed


The following text was generated during the delivery attempt:

------ xxx@??? ------

Exim version 4.44 (FreeBSD 5.2.1) uid=3D26 gid=3D6 pid=3D37554 =
D=3Dfbb95cfd
Probably Berkeley DB version 1.8x (native mode)
Support for: iconv() IPv6 PAM Perl OpenSSL
Lookups: lsearch wildlsearch nwildlsearch iplsearch cdb dbm dbmnz dnsdb
dsearch nis nis0 passwd
Authenticators: cram_md5 plaintext spa
Routers: accept dnslookup ipliteral manualroute queryprogram redirect
Transports: appendfile/maildir/mailstore/mbx autoreply lmtp pipe smtp
Fixed never_users: 0
changed uid/gid: forcing real =3D effective
uid=3D0 gid=3D6 pid=3D37554
auxiliary group list: 6
finduser used cached passwd data for mailnull
configuration file is /usr/local/etc/exim/configure
log selectors =3D 00000ffc 00010400
trusted user
admin user
changed uid/gid: privilege not needed
uid=3D26 gid=3D6 pid=3D37554
auxiliary group list: 6
finduser used cached passwd data for mailnull
finduser used cached passwd data for mailnull
originator: uid=3D26 gid=3D6 login=3Dmailnull name=3DExim User
sender address =3D NULL
in hosts_connection_nolog? no (option unset)
LOG: smtp_connection MAIN
SMTP connection from mailnull
smtp_setup_msg entered
SMTP<< MAIL FROM:<root@???>
SMTP<< RCPT TO:<xxx@???>
SMTP<< DATA
search_tidyup called
LOG: lost_incoming_connection smtp_connection MAIN
SMTP connection from mailnull lost while reading message data (header)
Handling error in batched SMTP input
An error was detected while processing a file of BSMTP input.
The error message was:

421 Lost incoming connection

The SMTP transaction started in line 0.
The error was detected in line 3.
0 previous messages were successfully processed.
The rest of the batch was abandoned.
search_tidyup called
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Exim pid=3D37554 terminating with rc=3D2 =
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

421 Lost incoming connection
Transaction started in line 0
Error detected in line 3

------ This is a copy of the message, including all the headers. ------

Return-path: <root@???>
Received: from root by xxx.net.au with local (Exim 4.44 (FreeBSD))
        id 1D3qYs-0009lf-Sv
        for xxx@???; Wed, 23 Feb 2005 18:03:54 +1100
To: xxx@???
Subject: TEST
Message-Id: <E1D3qYs-0009lf-Sv@???>
From: Charlie Root <root@???>
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 18:03:54 +1100