Re: [exim] how to detect if address aliased?

--On 14 December 2005 15:01:09 +0100 Giuliano Gavazzi <dev+lists@???>
wrote:

>
>
> On Wed, 14 Dec 2005, Tony Finch wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 14 Dec 2005, Giuliano Gavazzi wrote:
>>>
>>> The verify = sender condition is at the moment in the MAIL acl, but this
>>> does not play too nice with pine, have to see if it's better to deny
>>> later (in RCPT).
>>
>> Hah, I'm thinking of making the opposite change :-) but I need to spend
>> some quality time with various MUAs to find out which choice of ACL
>> causes them to produce the best error messages.
>
> I think you might be right, I just tested rejecting at RCPT and pine
> gives a really useless response. It truncates the whole message but the
> last word. At least with MAIL rejection it says something like "sender
> not set". I will too do some tests but first must install this on the
> production server... (my prudence in dealing with anything that has to do
> with aliases comes from a previous experience with sendmail, I had for a
> few hours all my developer emails forwarded to a list of 50 addresses at
> cus! that was back in 2002))
>
> g

It's for these reasons that we don't reject Message Submissions that pass
SMTP authentication. We bounce them to the authenticated user. That way, we
can give a much better explanation of the problem.

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Ian Eiloart
Servers Team
Sussex University ITS