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Re: [exim] A cryptic clue

Ian Eiloart
Tue, 16 Mar 2010 04:35:27 -0700


--On 12 March 2010 18:54:52 +0000 exim...@riotm.co.uk wrote:

> I'm not green with mail servers, but this one is new to me:
>
> 550 Sender address belongs to a non-trusted organisation [macl]
>
> I'm told it's Exim but I'm not sure of the cause. It is given at the
> rcpt to stage and I'm suspecting some kind of acl from the message.

It's a custom message. It says that it's rejected the message because it 
doesn't like the sender address, presumably the domain. The implication is 
that only senders from trusted organisations are accepted for the 
recipient. We have a rule like that for our ticket tracking software, for 
example.

It's common to ignore the sender address until RCPT TO, in case the 
recipient is postmaster. So, you could email postmaster@ and ask the 
question there.

> Can anyone suggest a reason or further reading?



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Ian Eiloart
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