Bug#309639: exim4: Code 450 Errors

[Marc Haber]

tags #309639 moreinfo
thanks

On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 07:40:11AM -0600, Gordon Haverland wrote:
> One of the guys in my LUG is in the anti-spam business.  He was testing
> out some new stuff, and wanted some of us (with different MTAs) to send
> messages to his machine.  Exim4 seems to fail in a bad manner in this
> test, hence the report.
> 
> His intention is to only allow a single recipient per connection, and
> the test involved having 3 addresses in the To: field.  The message sent
> back to Exim (from his logs is):
>  450 Only One Recipient Per Connection - See
>    http://www.XXXXXXXXXXX.net/policy.html

At which phase of the SMTP transaction is that temporary error issued?

> The first address is delivered to by exim, the other 2 addresses in the
> To: field are ignored.  Exim never does attempt to reconnect and send
> the second and third messages, per the error message from the
> destination site.  Exim does not warn the user that copies of 2 of the 3
> recipients is never sent.

Can you give the appropriate log entries for the messages?

You _might_ be better off with discussing this on Upstream's mailing
list, since I am pretty sure that Debian's configuration isn't at
fault here. I am, however, eager to help here as well. Your decision.

Greetings
Marc

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