Bug#430157: "unknown user" inappropriate for general vague failure message

[Marc Haber]

tags #430157 moreinfo
thanks

On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 09:54:12AM +0100, Philip Hazel wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Jun 2007, jidanni at jidanni.org wrote:
> > Package: exim4-config
> > Version: 4.67-3
> > 
> > >> Also it seems a shame that exim says "User unknown" while the real
> > >> problem is logged only in mainlog. 
> 
> The text "User unknown" does not appear anywhere in Exim's source code. 
> If any Exim installation is emitting it, it is because the configuration 
> file has used that text.

Ours does not use that text.

> However, I believe there are (or were) other MUAs/MTAs that overwrite
> whatever message comes with a 550 error, replacing it with "User
> unknown". There were certainly cases of this in the past.

That looks like a case of this.

Dan, can you please show exim log entries of the rejection you claim?

Greetings
Marc

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