Bug#313422: exim4-daemon-heavy: Bounces mail when network is down

[Marc Haber]

On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 10:36:12AM -0500, John Goerzen wrote:
> Package: exim4-daemon-heavy
> Version: 4.50-4
> Severity: normal

This is an ancient version. Please update at least to the version
released with current Debian stale.

> I would expect a MTA to simply queue mail that it tries to send when the
> network is down (or packet loss is high).

It should.

What does your /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf say? What does exim4
-d -bt address@domain.example say when it would bounce that message?

> However, exim4 bounces it,
> with an unhelpful "Unrouteable address" message.  (These are messages
> being sent off-site).  The exim4 mainlog doesn't have any other useful
> information, either.

Do you have things in the rejectlog, did you try debugging?

Greetings
Marc

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