On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 10:01:45PM -0700, Ketan Bajaj wrote:
> I have been seeing a problem:
> when i sent an email to an incorrect user at a correct domain, the qmail
> logs show that the message has been accepted.
> But if i send the same email, incorrect_user@correct_domain through outlook
> (microsoft exchange), the email bounces back immediately, with error message
> shown below:
> ************
> ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> 550 [EMAIL PROTECTED] User unknown
> ************
>
> Any idea why email does not bounce when sent through qmail.
qmail-smtpd doesn't know anything about users or local addresses; it knows only
what domains it should accept mail for. Once a message has been queued and
processed, it'll be bounced if there is no such address.
Are you questioning why qmail-smtpd doesn't reject the message right away,
during the SMTP dialog, rather than accepting the message at first and then
later bouncing it? Or are you saying that the message is never bounced? If the
former, the answer is that that's how qmail works. If the latter, then you have
a .qmail-default file that will catch any address rather than bounce mail sent
to non-existent addresses.
Chris
