Re: [exim] notifications of delivery failures

Stephen Gran wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 12:02:41AM +0200, Angel Tsankov said:
>> Stephen Gran wrote:
>>> 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
>
> So it got an smtp time reject from one of the secondary MX's. Perhaps
> they are configured differently?

If you mean that pmx.abv.bg and smx.abv.bg might be configured differently then I should say that this could hardly be the case.

> This seems to point at it not being
> a bounce issue. As they don't offer SIZE to EHLO, it's not trivially
> testable without trying to send an email.

Sending and e-mail is not a problem except if you mean sending it "manually", i.e. as you have suggested below.

>
>>> 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?
>
> Try a debug session - exim -bh ip.ad.dr.ess and then go through the smtp
> session:
>
> helo pmx.abv.bg
> mail from:<>
> rcpt to:<you@???>
> quit

Could you be more precise? What results should I expect?