Re: [exim] OK response without checking

Top Page
Delete this message
Reply to this message
Author: Matthew Byng-Maddick
Date:  
To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] OK response without checking
On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 04:10:25PM +0200, Israel Cardenas wrote:
[> I wrote:]
>> On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 12:35:58PM +0200, Israel Cardenas wrote:
>>> Can Exim return an OK response without verifying the receiver is correct?
>>> How can Exim do it?
>> Yes.
>> By the correct application of ACL rules.
>> I'm not going to comment on the wisdom of such a policy.
> I need this because I have an Exim server that send mails to another Exim
> server, and sometimes both Exim servers queue the same message. I want
> second Exim server always respond OK to first, so firsts Exim only queues a
> message when it fails...


If you read some of the archives, you'll see multiple discussions of why you
want to be able to 550 at RCPT/DATA time, rather than sending a bounce if you
can possibly avoid it. There is a reason for this.

> What ACL rules are needed?


That was your cue to read:
    http://www.exim.org/exim-html-4.50/doc/html/spec_39.html


Cheers

MBM

-- 
Matthew Byng-Maddick          <mbm@???>           http://colondot.net/
                      (Please use this address to reply)