Re: [exim] "rejected after DATA" without explanation

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Author: Mike Cardwell
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To: Exim Users List
Subject: Re: [exim] "rejected after DATA" without explanation
Marc Haber wrote:

> under which circumstances does exim generate rejectlog messages like
> this:
> |2009-05-18 15:56:11 1M63K6-0003Vi-RJ H=mail.example.com [a.b.c.d]> F=<info@???> rejected after DATA
>
> The vast majority of matches for "rejected after DATA" in my rejectlog
> have an explanation, which usually is the message or log_message
> setting from the ACL, and my DATA ACL does not have any deny stanza
> without message/log_message.
>
> What exactly is happening here?


I guess it would do that if you fell of the end of your acl_smtp_data
acl without accepting or rejecting.

http://www.exim.org/exim-html-current/doc/html/spec_html/ch40.html

"For any defined ACL, the default action when control reaches the end of
the ACL statements is “deny”."

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