Re: [exim] verify recipient not working

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Author: Paul Welsh
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] verify recipient not working


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jethro R Binks [mailto:jethro.binks@strath.ac.uk]
> Sent: 13 January 2008 23:37
> To: exim-users@???
> Subject: Re: [exim] verify recipient not working
>
> What you need is to read the spec sections about callouts, in
> particular
> around section 39.31 (in manual for 4.50).
>
> In addition, you will need to ensure that your INCOMING exim
> configuration
> has appropriate routers and transports so that it can actually do the
> callout (remember, this is done at receiving time). You will
> probably
> want to set them verify_only though, to ensure they never get
> used by a
> real delivery process (you will also probably have queue_only set).
>
> Hope that gives you a nudge in the right direction,
>


Thanks for that, Jethro. I've added:

           verify = recipient/callout=use_postmaster,defer_ok


to the incoming exim.conf and it seems to be working very well. The domain
in question received 12,885 messages today. They have under 75 users.