Am 2006-01-11 13:18 +0000 schrieb Tim Jackson: > You should make sure that all domains have postmaster@
Despite of my real concern (see below), yes. > this means you have a config error, where DNS is pointing to the local > machine but there is no router to handle it except dnslookup. Ok, I found I had a global alias set but routing failed since I had no [EMAIL PROTECTED] set up. IIRC, damn, its a while ago. > They will naturally do this if you have "verify = recipient" set in your > RCPT ACL, and your routers fail routing to addresses that don't exist. That is done on most of the situations. This time a spammer spammt all postmasters the first time. > Without seeing your config it's hard to say but at a guess you may have > something like this: > > .. > > some_router: > driver = something > domains = +some_domains > local_parts = foo > > .. > > in that case, you *may* (this may or may not be a good/clean solution > depending on your circumstances) need another router immediately below > that to catch all the addresses that weren't routed, something like: > > some_router_fail: > driver = redirect > domains = +some_domains > data = :fail:Unknown user [EMAIL PROTECTED] > allow_fail The last thing is merely what I really asked for. Instead of freezing the mails for ages with "lowest numbered..." a catch all should reject them. Could this be a sane solution? > If you post your config it will be easier to tell. I put some stuff onto http://ludenkalle.de/exim Konsti -- GPG KeyID EF62FCEF Fingerprint: 13C9 B16B 9844 EC15 CC2E A080 1E69 3FDA EF62 FCEF -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
