[imp] Re: Using IMP with Exim

[Patrick Boutilier]

James Brown wrote:
> I've noticed that the only time my messages fail to be sent is when they 
> are sent to another account within our domain.
> 
> A further log entry soon appears:
> 
> 2004-08-04 09:16:59 1Bs8Wh-0000KA-Cw ** james.brown at mydomain.com 
> R=dnslookup T=remote_smtp: SMTP error from remote mailer after RCPT 
> TO:<me at mydomain.com>: host mail.remotedomain.com [212.42.x.xxx]: 
> 550-Verification failed for <www at mydomain.com>\n550-Unrouteable 
> address\n550 Sender verification failed
> 
> I think this is saying that the sender (i.e. www at mydomain.com) does not 
> exist (which is quite true). Why the sender is this and not the 
> "james.brown" local part, I'm not sure. Is this an imp setting somewhere?
> 
> Do I need to tweak some setting in exim, a bit like the "TRUSTED USERS" 
> section of submit.cf in sendmail?


trusted_users in exim configure file?




> 
> Thanks,
> 
> James.
> 
> 
> James Brown wrote:
> 
>> All,
>>
>> I recently changed from Sendmail to Exim (as well as upgrading to 
>> IMP-3.2.5) and am having some occasional problems with sending emails. 
>> This is what I see in my exim log:
>>
>> 2004-08-03 23:18:01 1Bs7bc-0000HY-MS ** www at mydomain.com R=dnslookup 
>> T=remote_smtp: SMTP error from remote mailer after RCPT 
>> TO:<www at mydomain.com>: host mail.remotedomain.com [212.42.x.xxx]: 550 
>> unknown user
>>
>> The message is then frozen and does not get delivered.
>>
>> I am also seeing this in the headers of the mails which *do* get 
>> delivered:
>>
>> From: me at mydomain.com
>> To: person at remotedomain.com
>> Return-path: <www at mydomain.com>
>> [...]
>> Sender: World Wide Web Owner <www at mydomain.com>
>> [...]
>>
>>
>> I'm sorry if this turns out to be more of an Exim problem than an IMP 
>> one, but I'd be very grateful if anyone could help me or offer advice.
>>
>> Many thanks,
>>
>> James.
>>
>