Mailing List Archive: "exim -bh" and "require verify = sender" don't play nice together??

"exim -bh" and "require verify = sender" don't play nice together??

Jul 19, 2002, 10:50 AM

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Hi all,

I'm new to this list and I've only been using exim for 6 months so please
don't flame me for what might be a silly question :-)

I start an "exim -bh" fake SMTP session on my server, specifying the IP of the
firewall I am behind (ie the IP address that exim sees in a genuine SMTP
session from my current location). "Mail From" is the address I am writing
this email from (which routes to a local user on my server). Then, any "Rcpt
To" command is rejected "451 Temporary local problem" because sender verify
failed. If I telnet in from my current location (ie a real SMTP session) and
issue _exactly_ the same commands, the Rcpt is accepted.

I know this is to do with the "require verify = sender" line in the config
because if I comment this line out, then the message is accepted.

Why can't exim verify a local mail address when run in test mode? Am I missing
something really obvious, or is exim ? ;-) I'm using version 4.00.

TIA
Rich

Re: "exim -bh" and "require verify = sender" don't play nice together?? [ In reply to ]

ph10 at cus

Jul 21, 2002, 1:14 PM

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On Fri, 19 Jul 2002, Richard Gration wrote:

> Why can't exim verify a local mail address when run in test mode? Am I missing
> something really obvious, or is exim ? ;-) I'm using version 4.00.

Run your test with -d as well as -bh. Then you'll get more debugging
output. If you can't interpret it, post it (or at least the parts you
think are relevant).

--
Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service,
ph10@cus.cam.ac.uk Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714.

Re: "exim -bh" and "require verify = sender" don't play nice together?? [ In reply to ]

richard at zync

Jul 22, 2002, 10:29 AM

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On Sunday 21 Jul 2002 9:14 pm, Philip Hazel wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Jul 2002, Richard Gration wrote:
> > Why can't exim verify a local mail address when run in test mode? Am I
> > missing something really obvious, or is exim ? ;-) I'm using version
> > 4.00.
>
> Run your test with -d as well as -bh. Then you'll get more debugging
> output. If you can't interpret it, post it (or at least the parts you
> think are relevant).

Thanks for the reply. At the time this was happening, I was trying to
implement vacation message processing, using the example in the FAQ, Q0417.
However, something I did must have borked the config file. I later came
across C0006 which has done the trick. Thanks again.

Rick