Re: [exim] notifications of delivery failures

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Autor: Marc Sherman
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Para: exim-users
Assunto: Re: [exim] notifications of delivery failures
Angel Tsankov wrote:
> I tried to send an e-mail to a specified address. The e-mail was not
> received because the attachment was too big. However, I did not get
> any notification that the delivery had failed. The SMTP server that I
> used to transfer the e-mail was exim 4.60. Here's the relevant part
> of the main log file:
>
> 2006-03-13 21:11:17 IW2YMN-0002WK-3N <= <from address omitted> H=sven
> [IP address of SMTP server] P=smtp S=10430246
> id=000d01c646d1$e3d7aeb0$cf34000a@sven


Please don't obfuscate logs when posting to this list.

> 2006-03-13 21:11:39 IW2YMN-0002WK-3N Remote host pmx.abv.bg
> [194.153.145.81] closed connection in response to initial connection
> 2006-03-13 21:12:00 IW2YMN-0002WK-3N Remote host pmx.abv.bg
> [194.153.145.93] closed connection in response to initial connection
> 2006-03-13 21:13:24 IW2YMN-0002WK-3N => <to address omitted>
> R=dnslookup T=remote_smtp H=pmx.abv.bg [194.153.145.87] 2006-03-13
> 21:13:24 IW2YMN-0002WK-3N Completed


According to that Completed line, pmx.abv.bg accepted the message and
did not indicate any failure.

> After this I tried to send an e-mail with the same attachment via
> another SMTP server, which failed as well but I this time I got a
> notice of delivery failure. Have I misconfigured exim?


No, it would seem to be a (possibly intermittent) problem with pmx.abv.bg.

- Marc