Author: Odhiambo Washington Date: To: Kurt Jaeger CC: exim-users Subject: Re: [exim] Exim, 550 unknown local part and Outlook 2007/2010
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 22:40, Kurt Jaeger <exim-dev@???> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Recently I came by a very strange effect: Outlook does not alert
> the user if the destination mail address does not exist.
>
> If you are using Outlook 2007 or 2010 to send a mail using SMTP-Auth
> from a user test@testdomain to a non-existing mailbox
> nosuchmail@testdomain, exim will return:
>
> 550 unknown local-part <nosuchmehl>
>
> in the SMTP dialog. Here's the log file:
>
> 2011-06-23 21:21:38 H=somehost (windog) [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]
> I=[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]:25 F=<test@testdomain> rejected RCPT
> <nosuchmail@testdomain>: unknown local-part <nosuchmail>
>
> But: Outlook 2007 or 2010 ignores this error: It does not raise an
> error, it does not return a failed mail, nothing. It happily sits
> there and says: everything's OK.
>
> Anyone ever heard about it ? Does anyone know a fix for this ?
> How can one configure Outlook to alert the user about the 550 response ?
>
> This, you must ask Microsoft Support. It doesn't appear to have anything to
do with Exim.
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Best regards,
Odhiambo WASHINGTON,
Nairobi,KE
+254733744121/+254722743223
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