On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 22:40, Kurt Jaeger <[email protected]> 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. -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ I can't hear you -- I'm using the scrambler. -- ## List details at https://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
