Re: [exim] notifications of delivery failures

Stephen Gran wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 09:27:49PM +0200, Angel Tsankov said:
>> 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> 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
>
> This shows the message being delivered, from exim's point of view. If
> the mail got lost after that point, I have to assume it's the fault of
> pmx.abv.bg (assuming that is not also munged) and not a problem on the
> sending MTA's side. Assuming it is the sending side under discussion,
> there's not much more you can do.
>
>> 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?
>
> Magic 8 ball says "ask again later".
>
> I am not sure how one could know, given the amount of information
> presented, but I don't believe that's the problem. Did the second MTA
> get a 5xx at delivery time?

I think the second MTA got this:
smx.abv.bg: 552 sorry, that message size exceeds my databytes limit

> Did it get a bounce message later? Do you
> have exim configured to reject bounces for some reason?

How do I check if exim is configured to reject bounces?