[imp] Re: Using IMP with Exim

[James Brown]

Thanks Patrick.

"trusted_users= www"
"/etc/rc.d/exim restart"

That worked perfectly.

Regards,

James.


Patrick Boutilier wrote:
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> 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?
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> 
> trusted_users in exim configure file?
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>>
>> 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.
>>>
>>