Re: [exim] where should a invalid user rejeccted, smarthost …

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Author: Dave Evans
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] where should a invalid user rejeccted, smarthost orlocal exim4?
On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 12:09:46AM -0800, Angelo Chen wrote:
> Please take a look at following log, 64.22.109.63 is my smarthost for
> replaying, and my machine with exim4 is also connected to the internet, the
> latter is configured to have TLS authentication, I suppose if a sender is
> not authenticated in the machine, the message will not be replayed to the
> smart host, but the log seems to me that, the message is already replayed to
> the smart host and rejected by the former, am I right? Thanks
>
> 2007-12-31 02:30:36 H=(64.22.109.63) [122.124.130.221]
> F=<hi7188s.pp5975@???> rejected RCPT <toxxx@???>:
> relay not permitted
> 2007-12-31 02:30:37 unexpected disconnection while reading SMTP command from
> (64.22.109.63) [122.124.130.221]


What the log shows is that IP address 122.124.130.221 connected to whatever
machine generated that log line, and then said:

HELO 64.22.109.63
MAIL FROM:<hi7188s.pp5975@???>
RCPT TO:<toxxx@???>

i.e. a bogus HELO, and the RCPT command was then rejected ("relay not
permitted").

I would guess that the log line is taken from your smart host's log, and that
122.124.130.221 is nothing to do with you, and that all this means is that
122.124.130.221 tried to relay mail through your smart host, and your smart
host rejected this.

Does that help? I'm not quite sure if that answers your original question.

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Dave Evans
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