Re: [exim] Produce 550 error depending on sender's email

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Author: Jeffrey Starin
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To: Always Learning
CC: Exim
Subject: Re: [exim] Produce 550 error depending on sender's email
On 3/16/2012 11:26 AM, Always Learning wrote:
> Extending my last suggestion, because I more carefully re-read the requirement:
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>> We need to send a 550 error to several senders even though the recipient
>> email address is, in fact, valid. This is because the recipient does
>> not want to receive any email from the sender and wishes them to think
>> that their email does not exist on our receiving servers.
> How about this ?
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> acl_check_rcpt:
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> deny   message    = [2C03] Unknown email address $local_part@$domain.
>         recipients = jonny@???
>         senders    = EXDIR/jonny.unwanted

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> EXDIR is a predefined variable pointing to the location of Exim data files.
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> jonny.unwanted contains
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> sally@???
> fred@junk,com
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I've tried both methods and the message gets through. . . can EXDIR
part look like:

senders = /etc/jonny.unwanted

or is, in fact, EXDIR an actual Exim reserved word?